Opioids and Telehealth in a Pandemic

This one-hour Continuing Professional Development webinar will help physicians and advanced practitioners care for chronic pain patients with opioid prescriptions via telemedicine during the pandemic. The webinar covers: strategies to provide remote care for patients that you usually need to see in person, how to bill for telemedicine, regulatory changes to opioid prescribing and telemedicine policies, and the key features of the Better Prescribing, Better Treatment acute opioid reports.

Presenters

• Laura-Mae Baldwin, MD, MPH, University of Washington, Department of Family Medicine
• Michael Parchman, MD, MPH, The MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
• Jessica Schlicher, MD, MBA, medical director, Virtual Hospital & Mission Control; CHI Franciscan, Common Spirit Health
• Hon Nathan Schlicher, MD, JD, MBA, FACEP, president elect, Washington State Medical Association, physician lead, Better Prescribing Better Treatment, regional director of quality assurance, TeamHealth NW
• Jeb Shepard, WSMA Director of Policy

(Originally recorded on May 15, 2020)