One year ago, CMS handed down a ruling that allowed hospitals utilizing telemedicine providers to credential physicians through a proxy, using information about the physician from the distant-site facility rather than collecting and verifying information on their own.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 21, Issue 4
CMS recently approved the final language of the Joint Commission standards regarding credentialing and privileging telemedicine providers, making it easier for a hospital to utilize telemedicine services by allowing the hospital to use the credentialing and privileging...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 13, Issue 13
After much anticipation, The Joint Commission posted prepublication telemedicine requirements for hospitals and critical access hospitals August 4. The standards (LD.04.03.09 and MS.13.01.01) were retroactively effective to August 1.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 12, Issue 32
On May 2, CMS finalized a new credentialing rule that relieves credentialing professionals of the onerous task of verifying the often numerous hospital affiliations and board licenses typically held by telemedicine providers.
