mHealth Intelligence February 1, 2024
Anuja Vaidya

The agency plans to make permanent pandemic-era flexibilities, including expanding telehealth access to medications for opioid use disorder.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will publish a final rule on February 2 that significantly expands access to medications for opioid use disorder (OUD), including allowing treatment initiation through telehealth.

This final rule updates certain provisions of regulations related to Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) accreditation, certification, and standards for treating OUD with medications. These are the first substantial changes to the rules governing OTPs in 20 years.

In March 2020, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released guidance on flexibilities that could be leveraged during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the provision of unsupervised methadone doses and...

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