Telehealth Law Updates DEA

DEA and HHS Extend Telemedicine Flexibilities through 2024

DEA received more than 38,000 comments on its proposed telemedicine rules and recently held two days of public listening sessions related to ...

New DEA Rule Expected to Extend Controlled Substance ...

In late August 2024, POLITICO broke news on the DEA's internal plans to release an unworkable regulation that would render telemedicine ...

DEA to Extend Telemedicine Prescription Flexibilities?

A new rule posted on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) registry suggests that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is planning ...

Telemedicine - Diversion Control Division - Department of Justice

On September 12 and 13, 2023, DEA hosted public listening sessions and received comments from 58 healthcare practitioners, experts, advocates, patients, and ...

DEA Prepares to Issue Rule on Telehealth Prescribing

The telehealth prescribing flexibility rule has been used since 2020 to prescribe medications for conditions such as substance abuse disorder ...

Telehealth Law Updates DEA, State Laws and Compliance

In 2024, telehealth providers have continued to benefit from an extension of the waiver by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ...

AHA urges DEA and HHS to extend waivers of in-person ...

The AHA Oct. 4 urged the Drug Enforcement Administration and Department of Health and Human Services to extend telehealth flexibilities an ...

DEA's proposed telemedicine rules provide safeguards for a narrow ...

via telemedicine, so long as the prescription is otherwise authorized by applicable Federal and State law. • Prescriptions written by medical practitioners ...

Prescribing controlled substances via telehealth

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), jointly with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has extended the full set of ...

DEA and SAMHSA Extend Telemedicine Flexibilities Again

The extension will authorize all DEA-registered practitioners to prescribe schedule II–V controlled medications via telemedicine through December 31, 2024, ...

AHA Requests Flexibility Extension on DEA Telemedicine Prescribing

Indeed, during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), the DEA enacted certain flexibilities to ensure patients could continue to receive ...

Why DEA's latest move on telehealth could be a lifesaver

What's the news: Physicians can continue to prescribe controlled substances based on telehealth patient visits after the Drug Enforcement ...

DEA Proposed Rule | Telehealth Prescribing of Controlled Substances

As a result of the 2020 rollback, providers were allowed to prescribe controlled medications through telemedicine without the prior in-person evaluation of the ...

Former DEA official leaks plans for telehealth prescribing rule

The telehealth prescribing flexibility has been used since 2020 to prescribe medications for conditions like substance use disorder and ...

DEA telehealth prescribing rule lands at Biden's budget office

DEA's last version of the telehealth Rx rule was proposed in March 2023. The agency received over 38,000 comments from the public, the ...

DEA Reportedly Moderating Its Stance on Telehealth Prescribing ...

Many feared that the DEA's role as both health care industry regulator and law enforcement agency would lead it toward strict regulations for ...

Second Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine ...

This extension authorizes all DEA-registered practitioners to prescribe schedule II-V controlled medications via telemedicine through December ...

Telehealth Update: DEA Extends Flexibility in Prescribing Controlled ...

The new temporary rule authorizes all DEA-registered providers to prescribe schedule II-V controlled substances via telemedicine through December 31, 2024.

Telehealth groups urge DEA to release virtual e-prescribing rules

Citing compliance strains on providers and others, and the need to maintain patient care continuity, more than 200 virtual care stakeholders ...

DEA, SAMHSA Extend COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for ...

The temporary rule will take effect on May 11, 2023, and extends the full set of telemedicine flexibilities adopted during the COVID-19 public health emergency ...