How to Set Up and Sustain a Telepsychiatry Practice

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of telehealth and demonstrated its advantages in healthcare delivery. Familiarity with relevant legal, regulatory, reimbursement, and practice considerations is important to set up and sustain a telepsychiatry practice. In this interactive learning lab, attendees will examine considerations including selecting appropriate modalities to meet patient needs; assessing the evolving legal, regulatory, and reimbursement landscape; and integrating telepsychiatry with in-person care to create hybrid environments that optimize clinical decision-making and health outcomes within policy parameters. Topics that will be addressed include licensure, malpractice, prescribing, privacy and security, technology selection, documentation, patient safety, policy and advocacy, and future directions.