Psychiatrist Wayne Macfadden, MD, has been practicing for over 30 years. Wayne Macfadden, MD, serves as a Psychiatrist at the Spirit Lake Indian Nation Tribal Health Center, where he employs medication-assisted treatments (MAT) in treating patients with substance use disorder (SUD) by combining medications with behavioral therapy.
The Substance Use Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities (SUPPORT) Act gives medical practitioners greater flexibility in providing MAT. The Support Act provides privilege to “qualifying other practitioners” such as Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA), and Certified Nurse Midwives (CNM) to prescribe buprenorphine in office-based MAT settings until October 1, 2023. The act also allows specialized physicians and qualifying other practitioners to treat a maximum of 100 patients within the first year of the receipt of waiver as long as they meet one of these conditions: - The physician is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology or the American Board of Preventive Medicine as a specialist in addiction psychiatry or addiction medicine. - The practitioner provides MAT in a “qualified practice setting” as defined by the SUPPORT Act. After the first year in the 100-patients limit, the physician or qualifying other practitioner may request an increased limit of up to 275 patients.
0 Comments
|
AuthorWayne Macfadden MD: Expert in both Clinical and Research Psychiatry. Archives
March 2024
Categories |