<div>Please note that the credentialing and privileging topic has been postponed to a later date. Monday's speaker is Bill England from USAC.</div>
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<div>Cathy<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">CTeL</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:communications@ctel.org">communications@ctel.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:26 PM<br>
Subject: See you for lunch on Monday...<br>To: <a href="mailto:csbritain@gmail.com">csbritain@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>
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<div><font color="#5a3813"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Telehealth Leader, </font> </font><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span></span></font></span></div>
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<div align="justify"><font color="#5a3813">Due to a scheduling conflict, the May 24th CTeL <em>Washington Live!</em> Telehealth Brown Bag Seminar on Credentialing and Privileging will be rescheduled.
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<div><span>At the annual American Telemedicine Association meeting earlier this week, Dr. Karen Rheuban indicated that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services may release an interim final rule on the credentialing and privileging issue sometime soon. CTeL decided to postpone the credentialing and privileging discussion until the speakers could address the details of the CMS proposal. We regret this scheduling complication, but are certain we will have an informative credentialing and privileging discussion when the Brown Bag is rescheduled.</span></div>
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<div align="justify"><span><font color="#5a3813">Instead, the Center for Telehealth and e-Health Law is pleased to announce that William England, PhD, JD, Vice President of the Rural Health Care Division of the Universal Service Administration Company, will join CTeL as the speaker for its May 24th Brown Bag Seminar to speak on telehealth and telecommunications issues from the federal government's perspective. The Brown Bag Seminar will remain at its usual time, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM EDT.
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<div align="justify"><span><font color="#5a3813">The Universal Service Administration Company administers the Universal Service Fund, which provides communities across America with affordable telecommunication services.</font></span></div>
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