What Are Your Healthcare Policy Issues?
ASAM's leadership needs your feedback to help determine ASAM's legislative policy priorities.  Please send your responses to advocacy@asam.org and indicate what federal (and/or state) healthcare policies are priorities for you.  As an example, other members have indicated that one or more of the following policies are of concern:

• parity in healthcare coverage for substance abuse treatment
• removal of 30 patient-per-physician limitation regarding the prescribing of buprenorphine
• omission of certain addiction medications in the prescription drug formularies in Medicare's Part D drug benefit

ASAM members who have a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration to prescribe buprenorphine/naloxone or buprenorphine in an office setting may be inspected by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).  [DEA Inspection Guidance]

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