The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a final rule, Third Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled Medications.

Under the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008 (the Ryan Haight Act), a prescribing practitioner – subject to certain exceptions – may prescribe controlled medications to a patient only after conducting an in-person evaluation of that patient. Duri…

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