Christopher Adamec, executive director of industry group Alliance for Connected Care, previously told Healthcare Brew he felt these laws didn’t go far enough to expand telehealth access, adding that the buprenorphine rule’s six-month limit means a doctor could be forced to cut off treatment “in a potentially harmful way when the patient needs it most.”

The article DEA again delays new telehealth prescribing rules for veterans, buprenorphine Federal government officials—they’re just like us! (Procrastinators., addresses the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) decision to push back the effective date of two new telehealth rules from March 21 to Dec. 31, which would permanently expand some temporary telehealth flexibilities for prescribing buprenorphine and for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) clinicians to prescribe controlled substances.