Starting and Growing Your Own Telehealth Private Practice
Course #9118L -
- Participation Instructions
- Review the course material online or in print.
- Complete the course evaluation.
- Review your Transcript to view and print your Certificate of Completion. Your date of completion will be the date (Pacific Time) the course was electronically submitted for credit, with no exceptions. Partial credit is not available.
This live event takes place Friday, December 11, 10 am-12 pm EST (7 am-9 am PST).
This live webinar equips mental health professionals with practical knowledge and business tools needed to launch and grow a telehealth private practice. Participants explore business formation, HIPAA compliance, telehealth platform selection, insurance credentialing, billing and reimbursement, hiring and onboarding clinicians, workforce management, financial performance metrics, risk management, and long-term practice sustainability. Through examples and case studies, learners will review key legal, operational, and compliance considerations for developing, managing, and scaling a telehealth practice.
This live webinar is designed for mental health professionals seeking to establish, manage, or expand a telehealth private practice or group practice.
The purpose of this course is to enhance learners' knowledge and skills in legal compliance, business operations, workforce management, financial oversight, and risk mitigation to support the successful development and sustainable growth of a telehealth private practice.
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Identify the steps required to establish a telehealth private practice legally and operationally.
- Differentiate between Type 1 and Type 2 NPIs and describe the insurance credentialing process for telehealth and group practice settings.
- Distinguish between W-2 employee and 1099 contractor classifications and identify core hiring, due diligence, onboarding, supervision, and retention considerations.
- Identify operational, financial, compliance, leadership, and burnout-prevention strategies for sustaining and scaling a telehealth group practice.
Samantha Silverman, LCSW, specializes in Post-Traumatic Growth. She is the owner of Silver Linings Mental Health, an independently owned group counseling practice, located in Colorado, focusing on trauma informed care. After she survived the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the World Trade Center, she worked for a decade with Holocaust Survivors. She is currently focusing on writing a book detailing her perseverance after the attacks as well as building the Silver Linings Institute, an online educational platform aimed at helping individuals achieve growth and resiliency after trauma.
Contributing faculty, Samantha Silverman, LCSW, has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.
Alice Yick Flanagan, PhD, MSW
The division planner has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.
Sarah Campbell
The Director of Development and Academic Affairs has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.
The purpose of NetCE is to provide challenging curricula to assist healthcare professionals to raise their levels of expertise while fulfilling their continuing education requirements, thereby improving the quality of healthcare.
Our contributing faculty members have taken care to ensure that the information and recommendations are accurate and compatible with the standards generally accepted at the time of publication. The publisher disclaims any liability, loss or damage incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the contents. Participants are cautioned about the potential risk of using limited knowledge when integrating new techniques into practice.
It is the policy of NetCE not to accept commercial support. Furthermore, commercial interests are prohibited from distributing or providing access to this activity to learners.
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