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Compliance and TeleHealth Julie Bell, MED Compliance Program Manager Objectives: Introduce you to Intermountains Compliance Program Identify some potential compliance risks for TeleHealth projects Understand that there is not a


  1. Compliance and TeleHealth Julie Bell, MED Compliance Program Manager

  2. Objectives: Introduce you to Intermountain’s Compliance Program • Identify some potential compliance risks for TeleHealth projects • Understand that there is not a one size fits all solution for • TeleHealth projects Identify resources you can use in building and deploying your own • TeleHealth initiatives

  3. Compliance

  4. Purpose/Goal of a Compliance Program It is the overriding responsibility of the Corporate Compliance Department to promote an organizational culture that encourages a commitment to ethical behavior as well as compliance with applicable laws and internal policies.

  5. Compliance and Legal Risks Licensure/Scope of Practice TeleHealth and Prescribing • • Privileging and Credentialing Informed Consent • • Coding/Charging/Billing/Reimburs HIPAA/Privacy/Security • • ement Federal Fraud and Abuse: The • Documentation/The Electronic Anti-Kickback Statute • Health Record Federal Fraud and Abuse: Stark • Medical Malpractice/Liability Law • State Regulations •

  6. Licensure • Scope of • Practice Interstate • Compacts

  7. Privileging and Credentialing Cont. Significant administrative workload • to P&C every provider for TH The Joint Commission issued • standards allowing hospitals to “privilege by proxy”. § 482.22 CFR Condition of • Participation: Medical staff

  8. Coding/Billing/Reimbursement

  9. State TeleHealth Policies

  10. Intermountain • Resources External • Resources

  11. Resources

  12. National Changes H.R. 2550 – Medicare Telehealth Parity Act of 2017 • H.R. 2991 – Helping Expand Access to Rural Telemedicine (HEART) • act of 2017 S. 1016 Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective • Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2017 S. 787 Telehealth Innovation and Improvement Act of 2017 • H.R. 1148/S. 431 Furthering Access to Stroke Telemedicine Act • (FAST)

  13. Questions?

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