Telehealth Across State Lines & International Borders: Navigating Legal & Ethical Mastery (2024)
Faculty: Marlene M. Maheu, PhD
Seize this opportunity to expand your telehealth practice across state lines. As the legal landscape evolves, uncertainty looms for healthcare practitioners. Telehealth.org’s 2024 program offers indispensable solutions, equipping you with cutting-edge resources and actionable insights. Equip yourself to navigate the complexities of telehealth, teletherapy, and telemedicine, ensuring ethical and legal compliance. Benefit from experienced guidance in legal and ethical frameworks, licensing challenges, building resource networks, and staying informed. Delve into billing strategies across state lines, malpractice coverage, and international practice. Engage in case-based learning and access invaluable resources. Join us for this unmatched opportunity to excel in your field!
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Professional Development Activity Description
In the midst of the ongoing US Public Health Emergency, the landscape of telehealth practice is undergoing profound changes, necessitating a critical decision point for healthcare practitioners aiming to expand their services across state lines. The evolving legal framework has left many practitioners grappling with uncertainty regarding the ethical and legal dimensions of their telehealth practice. Telehealth.org's professional development activity offers a comprehensive solution, equipping you with the latest resources and profound insights to navigate the intricacies of telehealth, teletherapy, and telemedicine across state lines. This program is indispensable for physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and speech and language therapists seeking to practice within the bounds of the law and ethical guidelines.
Key Topics Covered
- Legal and Ethical Framework. Explore the intricacies of legal and ethical codes relevant to providing therapy services across state lines, ensuring that your practice aligns with regulations and ethical standards.
- Licensing Challenges. Gain valuable strategies to address common challenges encountered by providers who manage licenses across multiple states, simplifying the process for you.
- Resource Network Building. Learn systematic approaches to construct a manageable resource network that supports your telehealth practice efficiently.
- Stay Informed. Discover how to stay current with diverse state laws, maintain continuing education requirements, and effectively document compliance with regulations.
- Billing Strategies. Delve into considerations for billing services delivered across state lines or in multiple states for the same client or patient, ensuring financial integrity in your practice.
- Malpractice Coverage. Receive guidance on the crucial questions to ask your malpractice insurance carrier regarding coverage when practicing across state lines and internationally.
- International Practice. Learn where to seek information and how to navigate legal and ethical aspects when considering practicing in foreign countries.
- Interjurisdictional Supervision. Explore the nuances of legal and ethical considerations when supervising professionals from different fields.
- Case-Based Learning. Engage in group discussions through case-based examples, offering practical insights into handling legal, ethical, and clinical challenges.
- Access to Resources. Discover free, up-to-date telehealth interjurisdictional practice resources, including telehealth "model compacts" tailored to your profession.
This highly interactive program encourages active participation from the audience, fostering a deep understanding of the subject matter and empowering you to take swift and informed action in your telehealth practice. Whether your focus is on counseling telehealth across state lines, social work therapy across state lines, psychology, or any other form of telemedicine across state lines, Telehealth.org's professional development activity promises to equip you with the most current, indispensable, and actionable information. Join us – we guarantee that your participation will be a decision you'll be delighted with!
Learning Objectives
- Understanding the US Public Health Emergency. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the ongoing US Public Health Emergency and its profound implications on your capacity to provide services across state lines.
- Uncover Malpractice Coverage Gaps. Identify potential pitfalls that can nullify your malpractice coverage for online practice, even when your carrier assures you of coverage.
- Navigating Legal and Ethical Practice. Develop a clear and actionable two-step framework for practicing ethically and within the bounds of the law, whether it’s across state lines or international borders.
When & How
| CME or CE: | Credit hours 2 |
| Duration: | Approximately 2 hours to complete. |
| Format: | Initially available as LIVE, INTERACTIVE training (synchronous). Group interaction, online readings, illustrative media, automatically graded post-test. Subsequently available 24/7 as an on-demand recording (asynchronous). |
| When: | LIVE Event on 1/26/24 at 10 AM PST or 1 PM ET. (Recording available thereafter.) |
| Where: | 100% Online |
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Audience
This program is for beginning and intermediate-level “telepractitioners” and “telesupervisors” wishing to deliver telemental health services in these disciplines:
- Psychiatrists, Internists, Pediatricians, Gerontologists, Nurses, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners
- Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists
- Speech Pathologists, Dietitians, Occupational Therapists, Behavioral Analysts, Substance Use Professionals
- CEOs, COOs, Administrators, Billing & Coding Staff
Faculty
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Dr. Marlene Maheu has been a pioneer in telemental health for almost three decades. With five textbooks, dozens of book chapters, and journal articles to her name and educated more than 66k clinicians from 109 countries, she is in a unique position to guide you or your organization in finding a maximally profitable niche in telehealth. She is the Founder and CEO of Telehealth.org. She is the CEO of the Coalition for Technology in Behavioral Science (CTiBS), and the Founder of the Journal for Technology in Behavioral Science. She has assisted in writing standards and guidelines for national associations and was the Chair of the CTiBS Competency Committee that published the first telebehavioral health competency framework. She has been interviewed by dozens of leading newspapers and magazines, keynoted, and taught hundreds of telehealth-related workshops internationally. Dr. Maheu is a master at getting to the point and answering your questions with straightforward, actionable, evidence-based suggestions that quickly move you to your goal. She will delight you with her clinical acumen and make you smile at how simple many solutions can be when explained by a professional with decades of passionate telehealth training experience. Bring your notepad — you’ll leave with pages of practical to-do’s! |
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CME & CE Accreditations & Approvals
Telehealth.org has been approved by the leading medical and behavioral accrediting and approval groups.
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NY SW
NY MHC
NY MFT
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Addiction
The Association For Addiction Professionals (NAADAC)
The Association For Addiction Professionals (NAADAC)Telehealth.org is officially on file with NAADAC, The Association For Addiction Professionals (NAADAC) as an approved education provider. Telehealth.org has been approved as a NAADAC approved education provider. NAADAC provider #159459, Telehealth.org is responsible for all aspects of their programming.
Counseling
National Board For Certified Counselors (NBCC)
National Board For Certified Counselors (NBCC)Telehealth.org has been approved by National Board For Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No. 6708. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Telehealth.org is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Counseler (NY MHC)
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Counseler (NY MHC)Telehealth.org is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0237.
Medicine
Physicians, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners & Physician’s Assistants
Physicians, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners & Physician’s AssistantsPurpose: NJAOPS is dedicated to reminding and enhancing physicians’ knowledge to manage the changing needs of the healthcare system. These evidence-based educational lectures are structured to augment physician expertise with current guidelines, materials, and recommendations, as well as up-to-date advances in medical treatment on specific topics. Accreditation: New Jersey Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing education for DO Physicians. NJAOPS designates these educational activities for category 1-A credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.
Physician (AMA) accreditation statement: NJAOPS Is accredited by the Medical Society of New Jersey to provide Continuing Medical Education for physicians. NJAOPS designates live or online activity for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Health Professionals: participants may claim hours to receive a Certificate of Participation for an activity designated for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Method of Participation: for successful completion of activity and subsequent awarding of credits, individuals are required to participate in the entire activity and complete an attestation form, as well as an activity evaluation form. Send questions: contact@telehealth.org.
Marriage and Family Therapy
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Marriage & Family Therapist (NY MFT)
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Marriage & Family Therapist (NY MFT)Telehealth.org is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0104.
Other States. Many states do not require pre-approval of continuing education offerings for MFTs. Many states also accept courses that are offered by providers who have formally been approved by ACCME (physicians) APA (psychologists), ASWB (social workers) and NBCC (counselors), such as Telehealth.org. Please send the URL to this page to our licensing Board to ask if they will approve our course(s) to meet your requirements. Write to us if you need our help.
Psychology
American Psychological Association (APA)
American Psychological Association (APA)Telehealth.org is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor Continuing Education for psychologists. Telehealth.org maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Licensed Psychologists (NY PSY)
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Licensed Psychologists (NY PSY)Telehealth.org is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0193.
Social Work
Association Of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Association Of Social Work Boards (ASWB)Telehealth.org, Provider #1328, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Telehealth.org maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB approval period: 11/18/2022 – 11/18/2025. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval for continuing education credits. Please note that ASWB does not award CE hours for training related to marketing.
Canadian Social Workers
Canadian Social WorkersSocial workers registered in Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by ASWB for ongoing professional development. Please check with your college or Board and send them to this webpage along with the course description of the course(s) you are considering. Ask for a review to determine if our training is acceptable for your registration.
New York State Education Department’s State Board For Social Work (NY SWB)
New York State Education Department’s State Board For Social Work (NY SWB)Telehealth.org, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of Continuing Education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0752.
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