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OFFICERS June 18,20L9 President Paul H. Earley, MD, DFASAM The Honorable Gene DiGirolamo President-Elect House Human Services Committee William F. Haning, III, MD, DFAPA, DFASAM East Wing Building, Room 49 Vice President Harrisburg, PALTI2O Yngvild K. Olsen, MD, MPH, DFASAM Secretary Re: Opposition to 58675 JeffreySelzer, MD, DFASAM Treasurer Dear Kenneth L Freedman, MD, MS, MBA, FACP, DFASAM Chairman DiGirolamo and members of the House Human Services

lmmediate Past President Committee,

Kelly l. Clarh MD, MBA, DFAPA, DFASAM On behalf of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and the BOARD OF DIRECTORS Pennsylvania Society of Addiction Medicine (PSAM), we would like to take Directors-at-Large this opportunity to provide our opposition 58675. Anthony Albanese, MD, DFASAM to With the opioid addiction Adam J. Cordon, MD, MPH, FACP, DFASAM and overdose epidemic significantly impacting the country and Brian Hurle, MD, MBA, DFASAM Pennsylvania, ASAM and PSAM are concerned that the duplicative Margaret Jarvis, MD, DFASAM certification requirements established by the bill, as well as the proposed Marla D. Kushner, DO, FSAHM, FACOFP, DFASAM licensing fee for Office-Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT) practices as TimothyWiegand, MD, FACMT, FMCT, DFASAM outlined in 58675 will result in decreased access to lifesaving care. We cannot REGIONAL DIRECTORS support the bill in its current form.

Anika, Alvanzo, MD, MS, FACP, DFASAM Gavin Bart, MD, PhD, DFASAM ASAM and PSAM are dedicated to increasing access to and improving the Gregory X. Boehm, MD, DFASAM quality of addiction treatment for patients in Pennsylvania and across the Murtuza Ghadiali, MD, FASAM nation. ln the midst of a national opioid addiction and overdose epidemic, Frank lames, MD, lD, FASAM we must do everything we can to strengthen and grow the workforce Miriam Komaromy, MD, FACP, DFASAM that treats A. Kenison Roy, lll, MD, DLFAPA, DFASAM the disease of addiction in order to widen access to the clinically Peter Selby, MBBS, CCFP, FCFP, MHSC, DFASAM proven treatment services that do help people recover. With the state Scott Teitelbaum, MD, DFASAM considering additional requirements for Office-Based Opioid Treatment Melissa Weimer, D0, MCR, FASAM (OBOT) practices, where waivered physicians prescribe buprenorphine in an outpatient setting, it is critical that any regulation the state considers EX-OFFICIO does not impede physicians' interest in providing Brent Boyett, D0, DMD, DFASA addiction treatment prevent foseph M. Garbely, DO, DFASAM services and patients from accessing the right care they need Randolph P. Holmes, MD FASAM exactly when they need it, as outlined in ASAM's Public Policv Statement llse Levin, D0 on the Reeulation of Office-Based Opioid Treatment. Penny S. Mills, MBA, Executive Vice President/CEO

Aleksandra Zgierska, MD, PhD, DFASAM The licensure program to be established by the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs providers FOUNDING PRESIDENT for OBOT as qualified by training and

Ruth Fox, MD experience in order to prescribe buprenorphine would create a 1895-1989 duplicative process for physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants to practice OBOT as established by the federal Drug Addiction

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William Santoro, MD, FASAM, DABAM Public Policy Chair, Pennsylvania Society of Addiction Medicine

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