CMS has pushed back a deadline for Joint Commission-accredited hospitals to implement telemedicine performance and credentialing standards, less than two months before the planned compliance date. CMS made the decision to move the deadline from July 15, 2010, to March 2011 because the agency on May 26 proposed a new rule on credentialing and privileging telemedicine providers under Medicare and currently is in a 60-day comment period on that proposal. FierceHealthIT