Following up on its February 27 statement opposing the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s proposed permanent changes to the e-prescribing of controlled medications, the American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action sent its final comments this week…
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The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Monday against Rite Aid, accusing the pharmacy chain of filling hundreds of thousands of opioid prescriptions that had “obvious, and often multiple, red flags.”
Rite Aid is one…
The American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action group issued a statement on Monday outlining their opposition to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s proposed permanent changes to rules around the prescribing of controlled medications…
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The White House proposes a crackdown on telehealth-related prescribing of some medications when the COVID public health emergency ends on May 11.
Providers would be required to conduct at least one in-person visit…
Although 2022 has brought on a greater sense of normalcy, the past few years have distracted us from one of the most overlooked epidemics plaguing healthcare: prescription drug abuse.
Before Covid-19 diverted attention away from this problem, President Trump signed on to the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act of 2018, instating sweeping legislation for initiatives to address the opioid epidemic. The bill, among other initiatives, requires electronic prescriptions for controlled substances (EPCS) for any covered part D drug. Although the official start of the mandate was delayed two years to January 1, 2023, the importance of this federal intervention cannot be…
Every state but Missouri has operated a statewide prescription drug monitoring program for years. Now, the Show-Me state has come around to see the value of more advanced tracking controlled substances among registered providers.WHY IT MATTERS
Bamboo Health, which develops technologies for behavioral health and substance use disorders, says it will transition the existing Saint Louis County PDMP, which covers about 85% of the state, to a new statewide PDMP – without a complicated data migration process.
The state of Missouri will pay $1.4 million to operate Missouri’s new statewide PDMP, which will absorb the county’s data, according to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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