States Allowing Telehealth Prescriptions for Opioid Use Disorder

This map provides a snapshot of current telehealth medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) state policy 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic. Early on in the pandemic, the federal government implemented several telehealth flexibilities to allow states to maximize access to MOUD. While these flexibilities remain allowable until the end of the federal public health emergency (PHE), state approaches to prescribing MOUD via telehealth currently vary greatly: some states explicitly allow it, some explicitly do not allow it, and some state PHEs have expired, effectively ending the practice in the absence of further guidance regarding prescribing MOUD via telehealth.