Reversing previously proposed rules, the DEA recently issued new guidance allowing the continued use of telehealth when prescribing controlled substances following the end of the Covid-19 public health emergency (“PHE”). Waivers of the requirement for in-person encounters that were in place during the PHE will remain in effect for practitioner-patient telehealth relationships established as of November 11, 2023, for a one-year extension until November 11, 2024. In other words, as long as a…
By: Dickinson Wright
By: Dickinson Wright
