Telemedicine Requirements for Licensing and Scope of Practice
Overcoming Multistate Regulatory Hurdles for Healthcare Providers and Facilities
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will guide counsel for healthcare facilities and practitioners on the requirements and exceptions for telemedicine licensing and scope of practice. The panel will offer best practices for overcoming licensing challenges and explain how providers can comply with the law and get paid.
Outline
- Licensing requirements and challenges
- Physicians
- Consults
- Diagnosis
- Treatment recommendations
- Remote prescribing
- Licensing exceptions
- Non-physician practitioners
- Physicians
- Scope of practice
- Business issues
- Corporate practice of medicine
- Fee splitting
- AKS and self-referral
Benefits
The panel will review these and other priority issues:
- What are the regulatory challenges in meeting licensing requirements in multiple states?
- Other than traditional, formal licensure, what alternative paths permit a provider to become authorized to offer services within the patient's state?
- How can providers comply with scope of practice law, and how should mid-levels structure their agreements with collaborating physicians?
Faculty

Joseph P. McMenamin
Principal
McMenamin Law Offices
Mr. McMenamin concentrates his practice on advising clients on legal issues pertinent to telemedicine. Although most of... | Read More
Mr. McMenamin concentrates his practice on advising clients on legal issues pertinent to telemedicine. Although most of his work is domestic, he was a principle draftsman of the Draft International Convention on Telemedicine and Telehealth, a proposal of the Committee on Law and Medicine of the International Bar Association to the UN. As a member of the European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) Thematic Working Group, he assisted in the preparation of "Development of eHealth in Europe," an EHTEL Position Paper. He currently advises private clients respecting legal questions arising from providing cross-border services.
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Daniel Avants
Senior Counsel
Husch Blackwell
For over a decade, Mr. Avants has advised an impressive roster of healthcare provider clients in connection with a... | Read More
For over a decade, Mr. Avants has advised an impressive roster of healthcare provider clients in connection with a variety of legal and operational challenges, blending a business-centric approach to healthcare with regulatory considerations, including compliance with the 340B Drug Pricing Program, vendor and payor contract negotiations, provider-based conversion assessments and compliance, reimbursement strategies, mergers and acquisitions, and establishing value-based care models.
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