CME Online Inc

CME Online Inc is a continuing medical education provider built mainly around podiatry, with some courses open to any healthcare professional. It is a learner product: a practitioner registers for a live webinar or buys recorded lectures to earn continuing education credit. The company lists its address as 6 Edscho Lane in Commack, New York. Its About page describes the people behind it as "a team of specialists in the world of Medicine, Law and Technology" whose aim is keeping practitioners "up to date with the latest in legal and procedural changes." The same page promises "quality unbiased affordable Continuing Medical Education." Course pages name their audience plainly: podiatrists and lower extremity specialists for the surgical symposia, podiatry residents and students for the wound care program, and all healthcare professionals for the compliance day.

What a practitioner gets

CME Online works in two formats, and the second grows out of the first.

Live webinars. The home page calls programs that allow real-time interaction and questions to the speakers a vital part of CME Online. The company broadcasts its own educational programs and those of what it calls its World Class Educational Partners. Upcoming live events are listed with date, time and credit value. Two examples on the home page are an evening session on billing, coding and documentation for scar revisions and plastic procedures on October 14, 2026, from 8:15 to 9:45 PM Eastern for 1.5 CME credits, and a full day on the evaluation and treatment of ankle disorders on October 17, 2026, for 7 CME credits.

Recordings and on-demand courses. The About page says every live course is recorded "for continuous availability after the event." Three rules follow from that. If you miss the live event, you can take the course online for credit at a later date at no additional charge. If you never registered for the live event, the lectures can be bought as on-demand events. If you attended live, you can review the lectures again afterward. The on-demand courses themselves sit on a separate course site at courses.cmeonline.com.

Devices. The About page says the content can be viewed on almost any platform and lists PCs, Apple computers, iPads, tablets and smartphones.

Topics. The on-demand catalog is sorted into billing and coding, biomechanics, diabetic foot care, ethics, imaging, infection control, medicine, neuropathy, pain management, palliative care, pathology, pediatrics, pharmacology, practice management, risk management, surgery, trauma and wound care, plus a Members Only section. Featured titles include a New York State course on child abuse and maltreatment identification taught by Melanie Licatese, MSW, a program by Allen Jacobs, DPM, on evaluating and managing common venous disorders in primary care podiatry, First Ray & Beyond (6 hours), and Nursing Home Place of Service Audits with Michael Warshaw, DPM (3 hours).

Extras for members of the profession. The About page says the site links to training webinars from the Medicare carriers, carries feeds from major medical journals and publishes coding and billing tips. A State Licensing Requirements resource and a mailing list for upcoming conferences and webinars round this out.

Inside four of the programs

UCSF St. Mary's Hospital 2024 Foot and Ankle Symposium. Faculty discuss complex foot and ankle pathology, reconstructive surgery and trauma through case discussions. Lectures include failed big toe joint fusion, implant versus fusion for first MTP arthritis, segmental bone defects, failed ankle syndesmosis repair, arthroscopic assisted trauma, Charcot reconstruction and neglected Achilles injuries. The speaker biographies are detailed. Lawrence Oloff, DPM, is residency director at St. Mary's Medical Center and has served as team doctor for the San Francisco 49ers, the San Francisco Giants, the US Decathlon team, Stanford Athletics, Santa Clara University Athletics and San Jose Ballet; the page says he is entering his 23rd year with the Giants. Allen Mark Jacobs, DPM, is board certified in reconstructive surgery of the foot and ankle by the American Board of Podiatric Surgery and served for 25 years as a Director of Podiatric Surgical Residency Training. Lectures from this symposium are priced individually.

A Day of Compliance with Dr Brody. Michael Brody, DPM, chair of the CME Online education committee, leads an 8-hour program priced at $179.00. It runs in four parts: OSHA regulations (ionizing radiation, chemical communication and the bloodborne pathogen rule), two HIPAA blocks covering breach notification, right of access and the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, and a closing part on MIPS changes for 2024, quality measures suited to a podiatry practice, improvement activities and federal fraud, waste and abuse law. Some segments are marked as recordings.

Substitute Skin Grafts: Science to Business. This program, sponsored by CME Online, is built around skin substitute policies finalized by the Medicare Administrative Contractors Novitas, First Coast Service Options and CGS. The course page notes that those policies list 58 products meeting the FDA requirements for the covered indications and 130 products considered non-covered. Michael Warshaw, DPM, covers debridement CPT codes, ICD-10-CM ulcer coding and CPT codes for applying skin substitutes; Allen Jacobs, DPM, covers the 2023 IWGDF guidelines, venous ulceration and medical-legal documentation; Michael Brody, DPM, covers wound care and MIPS. The page says CME Online approved the activity for a maximum of 5.8 continuing education contact hours.

2024 FPMA Summer Meeting. A recording of the FPMA Summer Conference, which the page says offers "equal parts lecture and leisure," with CECH lectures each morning. Sessions include Steve McClain, MD, on when an ulcer is not an ulcer, Tim Miller, DPM, on muscle flaps for limb salvage and graft options for lower extremity wounds, Allen Jacobs, DPM, on opioid crisis training for the podiatric physician, and Mario Cala, DPM, on external fixation for Charcot foot.

Approvals, credits and prices

The home page states that "CME Online is approved by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education as a provider of continuing education in Podiatric Medicine." It adds that Providers of Approved Continuing Education (PACE) "has approved CME Online as a Chiropractic Recognized CE provider." The About page sums this up as "accredited by CPME and PACE."

Credit values appear per event and per lecture rather than per subscription. The course pages say the number of hours for each lecture is posted with the individual lecture, and the examples above run from 1.5 CME credits for an evening webinar to 7 for a full live day. Every course page carries a compliance statement under the Council's standards for approved providers: relevant financial relationships of faculty and planners are disclosed, and the programs shown here state that no commercial interest provided financial support.

Pricing follows the same per-item logic. The compliance day is $179.00, and symposium lectures are priced one at a time. The refund rule is short and appears on every course page: "No refunds are available for online courses."

Support runs through a contact form, a phone line and the info@cmeonline.com address. Testimonials on the site come from practicing podiatrists, for example "Excellent job! Very good informative topics. Well worth the time and money." from Mark P Hobaica, DPM.

For institutions and sponsors

CME Online also works as a broadcast channel. The home page invites educational institutions that want to broadcast a live course over the CME Online platform to get in touch, and a partnership section offers sponsorships, partner programs and a la carte website and newsletter advertising to reach physicians nationwide. The company has also run its own meetings, such as the 35th Annual St. Louis Podiatry Seminar on January 13 and 14, 2023, and a 2022 Practice Summit on the financial health of a practice.

Who it suits

The clearest fit is a practicing podiatrist who needs approved hours and wants them from named surgeons and coders. The surgical symposia suit foot and ankle surgeons; the billing, MIPS, OSHA and HIPAA programs suit practice owners and managers. Practitioners with unpredictable schedules gain the most from the recording rules, since a missed live event can still be completed for credit later. New York practitioners will find the state child abuse identification course, and chiropractors can look at the PACE-recognized offer.

Two caveats. The catalog is podiatry first, so a nurse or physician from another specialty will find a narrower choice than on a general CME site. And with no refunds on online courses, it pays to read each course page, its hours and its credit statement before buying.