Behavioral Health Business October 27, 2023
One of the nation’s most potent addiction treatment advocacy groups rebuked calls for a special registration process.
The special registration process would allow telehealth providers to prescribe controlled substances via telehealth without a prior in-person exam. Regulatory flexibilities during the pandemic opened a new lane of business for behavioral health providers, especially addiction treatment providers.
Even though the special registration process has long been prescribed by federal law, the president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), Brian Hurley, came out in opposition to establishing a special registration process for telehealth controlled substance prescribing.
He called this approach a “misguided” venture in an article published in Health Affairs. While arguing for continued flexibility for telehealth prescribing, he called for...
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