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Continuity of Care via Telemedicine for Veterans Affairs Patients
The Health and Human Services Department published this final rule in the Federal Register on January 17, 2025. It took effect on February 18, 2025.
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What the agency says
This final rule authorizes Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) practitioners acting within the scope of their VA employment to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine to a VA patient with whom they have not conducted an in-person medical evaluation. VA practitioners are permitted to prescribe controlled substances to VA patients if another VA practitioner has, at any time, previously conducted an in-person medical evaluation of the VA patient, subject to certain conditions.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-01044
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Justice Department; Drug Enforcement Administration; Health and Human Services Department
- Published
- January 17, 2025
- Takes effect
- February 18, 2025
- Dates
- This final rule is effective February 18, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket No. DEA-407VA
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1117-AB40; 1117-AB88
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 21 CFR 1306; 42 CFR 12
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Drug traffic control; Prescription drugs; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 18
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