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Document ID: CMS-2010-0195-0004
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services
Received Date: May 27 2010, at 12:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: June 14 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: May 26 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: July 26 2010, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80af4fba
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Proposed Changes Affecting Hospital and Critical Access Hospital Conditions of Participation, etc.

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I support the changes proposed but would like to see them expanded to include tele-interpretive services too. The Joint Commission has drawn a distinction between telemedicine where there is shared responsiblity, authority to write orders, etc. and tele-interpretive readings where only readings are provided such as echocardiography, sleep studies, etc. The guidelines as they are currently written appear to only apply to telemedicine. As a critical access hospital we will still be left to credential many, many physicians for the tele-interpretive readings. Thank you for your consideration.