Mental health care and remote telepractice: What You Need to Know for HIPAA and State Licensure Law
Ten years’ worth of change in remote medicine has occurred in a matter of weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2022.
Remote telepractice and mental health care have advanced in such a short time what had before taken many years. Both patients and practitioners are equally motived not to have face-to-face contact for therapy sessions.
This advanced webinar governs current HIPAA and relaxed privacy standards as applied to telepractice when “work from home” becomes “practice from home” for mental health treatment. Even so, state confidentiality and telepractice laws continue in full force and effect.
Samples of state licensure laws and telepractice rules are reviewed as well as national guidelines in mental health telepractice for compliance.
Finally, you will learn basic tips and techniques to defend your telepractice from privacy breaches and liability.
Areas Covered in the Session:-
- Basics of HIPAA privacy as applied to telepractice of mental health
- When work from home becomes practice and treatment from home
- Current state of relaxed HIPAA enforcement for non-secure electronic patient communication
- Samples of state licensure laws and the telepractice of mental health
- National guidelines in mental health telepractice for compliance
- Basic tips and techniques to defend your telepractice from privacy breaches and liability.
Background:-
The background for this topic is mental health care in private practice, health care entities, hospitals, and the non-profit sector in health care.
This webinar covers the multiple objectives how remote telepractice can be used in compliance with HIPAA and state licensure laws.
Why Should You Attend?
This advanced webinar also educates mental health care providers, including physicians, psychiatrists, non-physician practitioners, hospitals, other mental health care providers on the updated laws for telepractice.
This advanced webinar gives information on updated HIPAA and state licensure laws for the provision of mental health care via telepractice. This advanced webinar also answers practical questions about the utility of telepractice in mental health.
Who will Benefit?
- Health care law attorneys
- Mental health practitioner’s offices
- Licensed health care practitioners in private practice in mental health
- Medical directors of mental health facilities
- Office managers and medical directors of private medical offices using telepractice
- Health care managers and executives
- Corporate counsel in health care
- Health care administrators
- University faculty in health care
- Allied health professionals in graduate-level medical education across the many health care professions
- Corporate compliance officers.
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Mark R. Brengelman became interested in law when he graduated with both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Philosophy from Emory University in Atlanta. He earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Kentucky College of Law. Mark became an Assistant Attorney General in Kentucky in the area of administrative and professional law as the assigned counsel and prosecuting attorney to numerous health professions licensure boards.
He retired from the state government, became certified as a hearing officer, and opened his own law practice, including working as a legislative agent (lobbyist).
As a frequent participant in continuing education, Mark has been a presenter for over thirty national and state organizations and private companies as the:
Kentucky Bar Association
Kentucky Office of the Attorney General
National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute, and
Federation of Associations of Regulatory Boards.
This also includes multiple, national healthcare organizations, including:
Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards
Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy
National Council of State Boards of Nursing
National Association of State Emergency Medical Services Officials
National Association of State Contractors Licensing Agencies, and
American Association of Veterinary State Boards
Mark was the founding presenter for “Navigating Ethics and Law for Mental Health Professionals,” a continuing education training approved by five Kentucky mental health licensure boards. He also founded “The Kentucky Code of Ethical Conduct: Ethical Practice; Risk Management, and; the Code of Ethical Conduct” as an approved, state-mandated continuing education for social workers offered as a video-on-demand.
Mark has now worked for all three branches of state government has worked since June 2018 as the Enforcement Counsel for the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission, an independent regulatory body that oversees 138 elected state legislators and nearly 800 registered lobbyists. Continuing as an ethics attorney, Mark is also the contract counsel for the Ethics Commission of the Louisville Metro Government, a city and county merged government, the largest city in Kentucky, and the 45th largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States.
Mark focuses on representing health care practitioners before licensure boards and in other professional regulatory matters and representing children as Guardian ad Litem and parents as Court Appointed Counsel in confidential child dependency, neglect, and abuse proceedings and termination of parental rights proceedings in family court.
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