Telehealth industry and mental health groups are scrambling amid fears the Drug Enforcement Administration is poised to place strict limits on remote prescribing of controlled substances such as Adderall and Vicodin. Anxiety among telehealth stakeholders soared last Wednesday, when Politico Pro reported the DEA intends to produce a regulation that would narrow the list of drugs that remote providers can prescribe and require them to verify that patients aren’t seeking medicines to misuse them. That report is unconfirmed and was attributed to an unnamed former DEA official.
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Source: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/digital-health/dea-remote-prescribing-rule-extension-mark-warner