As physician shortages grow even faster and patients’ care needs intensify, more and more healthcare institutions will fortify their ranks with telemedicine practitioners. While distance doesn’t diminish a hospital’s responsibility to thoroughly vet and assess affiliated practitioners, it can throw a wrench in conventional approaches.

In this 90-minute webinar, expert speaker Catherine M. Ballard, Esq., will provide practical, compliance-minded guidance on performing effective credentialing, privileging, and peer review for remote practitioners.

Drawing on her expansive industry expertise, Ballard will demystify the relationship between federal, state, and accreditation requirements—which are not always consistent—and delineate must-have credentialing clauses in telemedicine contracts.

Participants will learn how and why to consider enlisting a credentialing proxy, and what to do when that’s not an option. They’ll also gain clarity on the shadowy topic of peer review, learning methods for sharing performance data in the face of state-specific protections and numerous practitioner affiliations.

Meet the Speaker:

Catherine M. Ballard, Esq., is a partner at the law firm of Bricker & Eckler and vice chair of its healthcare industry group. She works with clients in the areas of hospital/medical staff integration, medical staff and hospital-employed physician integration, quality assessment and performance improvement, and related peer review matters. She develops medical staff/advanced practice provider governing documents, and she provides advice on Medicare Conditions of Participation and private accreditation, provider scope of practice, physician recruitment/employment, and general patient care. She also provides mediation and arbitration services. Ballard is the executive director for Bricker’s affiliated consulting company, The Quality Management Consulting Group, Ltd., which provides services in the areas of performance improvement, external peer review, community health needs assessments, and HIPAA compliance. From 1985 to 1987, she served as a law clerk to Judge John D. Holschuh of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Ballard is a regular speaker at national forums, where she speaks on a variety of healthcare issues such as healthcare quality management, credentialing and peer review, medical staff governance, fair hearings, and ethics.

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