Following the announcement from the Biden administration that the public health emergency will end on May 11, 2023, an article from Fierce Healthcare featuring partner Jacob Harper notes that telepsychiatry experts are “urging providers to create contingency plans.”
“They don't have the same priorities,” said Jacob.
“Their priorities are not to ensure that patients get adequate, necessary care. Their job is to make sure that drugs that could be abused do not get into the hands of people who would abuse them,” he said, noting he is not surprised that the Drug Enforcement Administration appears to be working on a different timeline than healthcare providers.