The Cost of Red Tape
LinkousThink
MARCH 10, 2010
Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) came out with an interpretation of how a hospital should provide quality assurance for physicians providing health care via telemedicine to a patient in the hospital. The issue swirls around privileging, the process used by health facilities, after verification of credentials, to grant a physician the authority to provide a specific scope of patient care services, largely based on past performance, capabilities and skills.
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