Modern Healthcare: Among the White House's new tools unveiled this week to combat the opioid abuse epidemic is a proposed rule to double the patient load for doctors who prescribe buprenorphine.
The move to bump patient limits from 100 to 200 was met with mixed reactions by health professionals and patient advocates who say physicians often shy away from medication-assisted treatment because they don't have the staff or the financial incentive to prescribe it.
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