Partner Howard Young was quoted in a Hospice News article about the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s proposed rule for prescribing hospice medications through telehealth.
“This advanced telemedicine prescribing registration is very cumbersome and requires quite a lot of the physician and, indirectly, of the hospice, both in terms of qualifications, paperwork for continued reporting obligations, tracking obligations and the like,” Howard said. “You might say, well, it’s easy enough, just go see the patient once. But again, in the hospice context, that could be very challenging.”