Telemedicine Requirements for Licensing, Scope of Practice, and Reimbursement
Overcoming Multistate Regulatory Hurdles for Healthcare Providers and Facilities
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE webinar will guide legal counsel to healthcare facilities and practitioners on the requirements and exceptions for telemedicine licensing and reimbursement. The panel will offer best practices for overcoming licensing challenges and explain how providers can comply with standards and get paid.
Outline
- Licensing requirements and challenges
- Physicians
- Consults
- Diagnosis
- Treatment recommendations
- Remote prescribing
- Licensing exceptions
- Non-physician practitioners
- Physicians
- Scope of practice
- Reimbursement
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Commercial reimbursement
- 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 are alternative paths for a provider to become authorized to offer services within the patient's state?
- What telemedicine services are covered by Medicare? By Medicaid?
- What are the regulatory hurdles relating to anti-kickback and self-referral?
- What hurdles persist under corporate practice laws, and how can they be cleared?
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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Cybil G. Roehrenbeck
Shareholder
Polsinelli
Ms. Roehrenbeck practices in the firm’s Public Policy Group and is Practice Leader of the firm’s Telehealth... | Read More
Ms. Roehrenbeck practices in the firm’s Public Policy Group and is Practice Leader of the firm’s Telehealth Practice. She focuses on emerging healthcare sectors and is dedicated to helping clients achieve their objectives by employing a strategic approach to legal and business challenges. Ms. Roehrenbeck counsels clients on federal legislative and regulatory opportunities in the following areas: federal payor coverage and reimbursement; telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and other digital health modalities; artificial intelligence; and innovative healthcare delivery models.
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Erin S. Whaley
Partner
Troutman Pepper
Ms. Whaley’s corporate and regulatory experience includes advising providers on healthcare operational regulatory... | Read More
Ms. Whaley’s corporate and regulatory experience includes advising providers on healthcare operational regulatory issues, corporate issues such as IT contracting, physician contracting and joint venture opportunities, and compliance issues. Her health IT experience includes representing providers in the negotiation of various health IT contracts including electronic health records, revenue cycle management, population health and telehealth contracts. Ms. Whaley also represents health IT vendors on corporate and regulatory issues.
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