Could you expand on the ways Pennsylvania incorporated new or existing telehealth services into this new model of care and payment?
In Pennsylvania, State legislators were briefed early in the development of the model.
The Department also engaged Senator Casey's office and the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsak, throughout the design of the initiativ...
remove barriers so that rural facilities may fully utilize telehealth services.
I would also like to acknowledge Senator Casey and his office's support as we designed this model.
We applaud Senator Casey for his bill that would have Medicare pay for methadone.
We are deeply grateful to Senator Casey for his many years of support in efforts to get rid of the IMD exclusion.
We should make it as available to the general public as is possible, so that everyone has an opportunity to reverse an overdose.
naloxone should be in the hands of every person who might need it.
It is time for bold and bipartisan leadership to address the wreckage of this dreadful epidemic.
We all have a sacred responsibility to care for pregnant mothers and their newborn infants struggling to overcome opioid misuse.