The rule, which applies to all hospitals that participate in Medicare, and inpatients at critical access hospitals, upholds The Joint Commission’s current practice of allowing the hospital or CAH to utilize information from the distant-site hospital or other accredited telemedicine entity when making credentialing or privileging decisions for the distant-site physicians and practitioners.
The Joint Commission believes that the previous CMS requirements placed an undue burden on many organizations because they did not improve the quality of services, the accountability of physicians and practitioners or the effectiveness of the credentialing and privileging processes.
Read The Joint Commission’s news release about its support of CMS’ new rule on telemedicine requirements.
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