New Hampshire Law Clarifies Prescribing Of Controlled Substances By Telehealth

Effective August 12, 2016, modifications to a New Hampshire telemedicine prescribing law allow providers delivering services by means of telemedicine to prescribe non-opioid controlled drugs classified in schedules II through IV, as long as they are treating a patient with whom the prescribers have an in-person practitioner-patient relationship and are monitoring and providing follow-up care. This expands the prior version of the law, which limited the prescribing of such medications by means of telehealth to providers treating patients at a state-designed community mental health center or substance abuse program, allowing for greater utilization of telehealth with existing patients.

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