2020 Renewal Extension May Impact Your 2023 CME Hours
The 2023 license renewal timeframe is more complicated than in years past. This video gives a short explanation of how to count your hours considering the PHE renewal extension in 2020.
Transcript:
We’ve received a number of questions asking about how to count CME hours for this particular renewal period. If you’ll remember back in the 2020 renewal right at the beginning of the pandemic stage, the public health emergency ended up extending the deadline to complete CME and renewal from the typical July 31 timeframe to September 30. That leaves kind of this two-month overlap period. Now, here’s the the short answer – the question is what happens with our hours? What are we going to count for the 2023? Period? Well, the easy answer is you get three years. So from that July 31, date back three years, which would mean from August 1, 2020 to July 31, 2023. The hours that are obtained during that period, would normally count.
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However, with this two-month gap, there’s too much overlap period, if you will, from the prior renewal cycle, we want to make sure something is incredibly clear, you are not able to count hours more than once. That means that if you were not able to obtain your renewal hours until those last couple of months, that August and September of 2020 timeframe, then those hours can only count toward your 2020 renewal, you’re not able to overlap those hours. After that, however, you can. So for example, if you took a handful of classes in the first week or two of August, and then took a few more classes in the following ensuing six weeks, then those courses that you took that were in excess of what was required for renewal for the 2020 renewal cycle, you could count towards this particular 2023 cycle. So it’s really important to know that you can count classes back to August 1, 2020, through July 31, 2023. However, you cannot count hours twice. It’s really really important to make sure that when you’re analyzing your classes and your CME hours for this particular renewal cycle that you do not count hours twice. We hope this helps you out and we’ll catch you next week.
