11/21/2023 0 Comments Telehealth visits narcotics![]() On February 1, 2023, Utah’s Attorney General, Sean Reyes joined 19 other states’ attorneys general to send letters to two national pharmacy companies in response to those pharmacy chain’s decisions to dispense medication abortion via mail-order prescribing. States and the federal government have been taking sides on the ability of pharmacies to dispense mail-order medications used for abortion. Utah’s bill may be an effort to curtail online prescribing of medication abortion in the state. ![]() an online questionnaire an email message or a patient-generated medical history. 152 would be to make asynchronous telehealth-only prescribing unlawful in the state, with Utah’s law on the scope of telehealth practice amended to prohibit “diagnos a patient, provid treatment, or prescribe a prescription drug based solely on. While providers have been required under the Online Prescribing Act to obtain a comprehensive patient history and assessment prior to issuing a prescription, at present, this may be done via telehealth. Originally enacted in 2010, the Online Prescribing Act has allowed health care providers to register with the State to prescribe and dispense certain FDA-approved drugs via online pharmacies and utilization of telehealth visits. The bill currently awaits Governor Spencer Cox’s signature and would take effect sixty (60) days after its signing. On February 14, 2023, the Utah Senate passed a bill that would repeal the State’s “Online Prescribing, Dispensing, and Facilitation Licensing Act” (“Online Prescribing Act”). In the era of abortion regulation and the wind-down of the COVID-19 public health emergency (“PHE”), new legislation in states such as Utah may be a sign of what is to come for online and telehealth prescribing.
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