Addiction treatment would stay easier to get under new rule
Addiction treatment received a lot easier through the Covid-19 pandemic — and the Biden administration would like to keep it that way. Federal regulators on Tuesday introduced a proposal to consider the unexpected emergency insurance policies enacted in 2020, in reaction to the rising pandemic, and make them long lasting. In individual, the changes would protect patients’ expanded obtain to two key medications used to treat opioid addiction: methadone and buprenorphine. “These proposed updates would deal with longstanding limitations [to]…