Foley & Lardner recently issued the following announcement.
Thomas (T.J.) Ferrante, a Senior Counsel in the firm’s Telemedicine Industry Team and Digital Health Group will give a virtual presentation at the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s (LACBA) meeting on June 3, 2020 at 5:30pm PT. The presentation is titled: “COVID-19 and the Mainstreaming of Telehealth.”
Mr. Ferrante will be joined by an expert panel, including:
- Seema Kamal, J.D., Vice President Corporate Counsel, Altamed
- Harsh Parikh, J.D., Senior Associate, Nixon Peabody, LLLP
- Leeann Habte, J.D., Partner, Best Best & Krieger
Topics include:
- Current Federal and California waivers, including for licensure, location-specific requirements, modalities, prior patient relationships, and HIPAA;
- Enforcement flexibility during this public health emergency;
- Expansion of reimbursement;
- Experiences from the field, including:
- how telehealth is being harnessed to limit exposure and prevent the spread of the virus, and
- challenges to ramping up during the emergency; and
- Implications for the future of virtual health.
Original source can be found here.