How Are States Using Telemedicine to Tackle the Opioid Abuse Crisis? - McDermott Will & Emery

How Are States Using Telemedicine to Tackle the Opioid Abuse Crisis?

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Lisa Schmitz Mazur said that, based on her experience with telemedicine and telehealth, conflicting federal and state regulations and restrictions on how providers can use digital health tools to fight the opioid epidemic are creating an environment where healthcare providers “are not wanting to do this at all [because] it has become too complicated.”