<div>To the TAO Listserv Members,</div>
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<div>This newsletter contains a link to the CTEL report on credentialing and privileging . It is excellent. If you plan to submit comments to CMS, remember they are due July 26th.</div>
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<div>Cathy <br><br></div>
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Date: Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:31 PM<br>Subject: CTeL Releases Credentialing and Privileging Report<br>To: <a href="mailto:csbritain@gmail.com" target="_blank">csbritain@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>
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<div align="justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><font face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#523813">A summary of that proposed rule change, excerpted from the Federal Register Notice, is listed below: </font></span></div>
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<div align="justify"><font color="#5a3818"><font color="#5a3818"><font face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'" color="black"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><font face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#5a3818"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #5a3818; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="COLOR: #5a3818; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><font color="#5a3818"><span lang="EN-GB" style="COLOR: #5a3818; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><font color="#5a3818"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" color="#5a3818"><font color="#5a3818"><font color="#5a3813"><font color="#5a3813"><font color="#5a3813"><font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#5a3813">The Center for Telehealth and E-Health Law (CTeL) - a nationally recognized non-profit organization that focuses on legal and regulatory issues impacting the telehealth community - is looking for a 2010 CTeL Visual Arts Fellow. The CTeL Visual Arts Fellow will be selected from a pool of applicants who have already completed either their junior level undergraduate course work or are currently enrolled in a graduate program which focuses on the visual arts (i.e. marketing, video, film editing, etc.). </font>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'"><font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#5a3813">The Fellowship will begin in Sept. 2010. Those who are interested in this opportunity can e-mail resumes to </font><a title="mailto:christa.natoli@dbr.com" href="mailto:ctelsummer2010@gmail.com" target="_blank" shape="rect"><span color="windowtext"><font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#5a3813">ctelsummer2010@gmail.com</font></span></a><font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#5a3813">. The deadline to apply is August 20, 2010.</font></span></p>
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