Telehealth Tuesdays

April 14, 2020:  Q&A with the CASP Telehealth Task Force

Original Webinar Date: April 14, 2020

Webinar Duration: 50 min

Short Title: Telehealth Tuesday (April 14, 2020)

CEU offered: 1.0 Learning CEU

CE Instructors:

  • Joy Pollard, PhD, BCBA-D
  • Jennifer Dantzler, BCBA
  • Kathleen Karimi, MHA


About Telehealth Tuesdays:  CASP's Telehealth Tuesdays provide a recurring meeting time for providers to join and ask questions about telehealth service models and billing practices. During the pandemic, CASP will hold a call every Tuesday at 11:00 PT/2:00 ET via Zoom.  Providers should submit questions by the prior Friday evening. A selection of members from the CASP Telehealth Task Force, led by Dr. Joy Pollard, will then guide the general meeting based upon prior submissions, as well as questions that come in during the webinar. 

Effective May 26, 2020 these meetings will be held every 2 weeks and include a 10-15 minute demonstration of a telehealth technology platform.  Please note: These demonstrations do not imply CASP endorsement.

Questions addressed in this presentation include:

  1. For the 97155 code w/ telehealth for the QHP, does the client have to be logged in (synchronous) to the meeting with you the entire time you are previewing the data prepping for the session prior to when you would being observing and offering modification suggestions and modeling/feedback? And then again does the client need to be logged into the meet/zoom when you are briefly writing up the data analysis and documenting what protocol changes were just made?
  2. How would we go about identifying ourselves as exempt or nonexempt under new law?
  3. I would like support/direction and knowledge regarding how to continue with telehealth after COVID-19. What ongoing policies and procedures are needed? Can we have examples? How do you market telehealth? What changes need to be made to your insurance? How to you get international clients, etc.?
  4. Who are the typical payers of telehealth and what codes are typically funded?
  5. What questions do you ask funders in order to have telehealth funded?


Instructor(s)

Ph.D., BCBA-D Joy Pollard

Dr. Joy Pollard is the Co-founder and CEO of Clinical Operations at Behavior Change Institute. She earned her Ph.D. in Disability Disciplines, with a Specialization in Applied Behavior Analysis and her clinical experience has spanned across the home, clinical, school, and residential home settings. Dr. Pollard serves as Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, where she provides clinical supervision and collaborates on research focused on children with ASD and neurogenetic syndromes. Her research and clinical practice have focused extensively on practitioner capacity building initiatives and pioneering telehealth applications to increase access to medically necessary ABA treatment for individuals living in rural and geographically isolated areas. Her scholarly publications include articles on ethical considerations in the design and implementation of telehealth service delivery models and she has served as a subject matter expert for the Telehealth Guidelines by the Council for Autism Service Providers (CASP).

BCBA, LBA, M.S. Ed Jennifer Dantzler

Jennifer is the Founder & Executive Director of Including Kids Autism Center. Jennifer holds a Post Graduate Certificate of Autism from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, in addition to an M.S. Ed. in Intensive Special Needs from Simmons College, Boston, MA. She did her undergraduate work at American University, Washington, D.C. where she earned a B.A. in Elementary/Special Education. Jennifer is a Licensed Behavior Analyst and she is also certified in Special Education/Intensive Special Needs in Texas. She is currently venturing into young adult services and speaks professionally at local and national conferences on a regular basis to help spread autism awareness, including The World Autism Organisation Conference and The Council of Autism Service Providers (CASP). The rate of autism continues to increase at an alarming rate and that need is what continues to drive her to do more, build more and want more for families with autism.

MHA Kathleen Karimi

Kathleen Karimi is the Co-founder and CEO of Business Operations at Behavior Change Institute. Kathleen earned a Masters Degree in Healthcare Administration from Ohio University and has a Bachelor’s in Psychology from the University of Minnesota. Kathleen discovered her passion for business early on and has over 12 years of experience supporting clinical practice through healthcare business administration, advocacy and development. In addition to fulfilling an executive role at several premier behavioral healthcare organizations, Kathleen has consulted for dozens of leading ABA organizations nationwide in the areas of business administration, quality assurance and development. Kathleen has published on ethical considerations in the design and implementation of telehealth service delivery models and she has served as a subject matter expert for the Telehealth Guidelines by the Council for Autism Service Providers (CASP). Kathleen is also an active member of the Texas Association for Behavior Analysis Telehealth Task Force.