Alabama Lawmaker Gears Up To Expand State’s Use Of Telehealth In 2023

Alabama state senator Bobby Singleton (D) hopes to overcome state medical board objections and generate enough bipartisan support in 2023 to allow telehealth prescribing of controlled substances and expand virtual care’s role in Alabama’s Medicaid program. Singleton told Inside TeleHealth that the legislature’s previous Act 2022-302, which implemented telehealth laws in the state, did not include all of the reforms he hoped to see -- namely, the ability to prescribe narcotics via telehealth and expanded telehealth access for Medicaid...