# Continuity of Care via Telemedicine for Veterans Affairs Patients
> **US Department of Health and Human Services** · Final rule. · Published 2025-01-17 · Effective 2025-02-18 · 90 FR 6523
## Document
- **Document number:** 2025-01044
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Health and Human Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 90 FR 6523
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 1306
- **Publication date:** 2025-01-17
- **Effective date:** 2025-02-18
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. DEA-407VA
## Abstract

This final rule authorizes Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) practitioners acting within the scope of their VA employment to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine to a VA patient with whom they have not conducted an in-person medical evaluation. VA practitioners are permitted to prescribe controlled substances to VA patients if another VA practitioner has, at any time, previously conducted an in-person medical evaluation of the VA patient, subject to certain conditions.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/17/2025-01044/continuity-of-care-via-telemedicine-for-veterans-affairs-patients)
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