DEA Announces Three New Telemedicine Rules that Continue to …
2 days ago · “DEA’s goal is to provide telehealth access for needed medications while ensuring patient safety and preventing the diversion of medications into the illicit drug market,” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram. “We understand the difficulties some patients have accessing medical providers in-person, and we want to ease this burden while ...
HHS, DEA release rules related to telemedicine prescribing of ...
2 days ago · The DEA’s final rule for the telemedicine prescribing of buprenorphine will enable practitioners to prescribe a six-month initial supply of Schedule III-V medications to treat opioid use disorder via audio-only telemedicine interaction without a prior in-person evaluation. Practitioners can then prescribe additional medication via other ...
DEA and HHS Extend Telemedicine Flexibilities through 2025
Nov 15, 2024 · However, with the end of 2024 quickly approaching, DEA, jointly with HHS, has extended current telemedicine flexibilities through December 31, 2025. The full text of the extension, entitled “Third Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled Medications,” was submitted to the Federal Register ...
DEA and HHS Extend Telemedicine Flexibilities through 2025
November 15, 2024 The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in concert with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a third extension of telemedicine flexibilities for the prescribing of controlled medications, through December 31, 2025.
DEA Announces Proposed Rules for Permanent Telemedicine …
Feb 24, 2023 · The proposed rules would provide safeguards for a narrow subset of telemedicine consultations—those telemedicine consultations by a medical practitioner that has: never conducted an in-person evaluation of a patient; AND that result in the prescribing of a …
Telemedicine - DEA Diversion Control Division
On September 12 and 13, 2023, DEA hosted public listening sessions and received comments from 58 healthcare practitioners, experts, advocates, patients, and other members of the public to inform DEA’s regulations on prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine.
DEA, HHS finalize rule allowing telehealth drug treatment
2 days ago · But the DEA did not implement that part of the law, preventing providers from prescribing controlled substances through telehealth until such restrictions were waived during the COVID-19 pandemic.
DEA and HHS Announce ASHP-Supported Telehealth Expansions …
3 days ago · The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ... Additional prescriptions may be issued under other forms of telemedicine authorized by the Controlled Substances Act or after an in-person medical evaluation is conducted.
New Rule From DEA, HHS Will Allow Some Opioid Treatment Via Telehealth
1 day ago · Roll Call: DEA, HHS Finalize Rule Allowing Telehealth Drug Treatment The Biden administration Wednesday finalized a long-awaited rule laying out how some health care providers can prescribe gold-standard opioid use disorder treatments through telehealth. (Hellmann and Raman, 1/15) In other pharmaceutical developments —
DEA pitches registry to boost scrutiny of telehealth prescribing
3 days ago · DEA clarifies that a telehealth platform “explicitly excludes certain types of entities, including hospitals, clinics, insurance providers, and local in-person medical practices.”