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Free MAT Waiver Training
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) helps people reduce or quit their use of heroin other other opioids such as pain relievers. Idaho desperately needs more medical providers to offer this important treatment in their practice.
Medication-assisted treatment is carefully regulated. Qualified physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are required to acquire a waiver and maintain certifications to legally dispense or presecribe opioid dependency medications.
ECHO Idaho will host a free MAT Waiver training in two parts: a live 4-hour seminar that participants can join using ECHO video conferencing technology, and online modules for those who take the live training to complete on their own.
Both portions are free and approved for 8 credits of CME. Participants join Zoom video conferencing from anywhere in the state with a webcam.
Physicians who complete the training will qualify for the waiver to prescribe and dispense buprenorphine. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants will also qualify for the waiver after an additional 16 hours of training.
Trainers include Dr. Magni Hamso, MD, MPH, a general internist with Terry Reilly Health Services and associate program director for the University of Washington, Boise Internal Medicine Residency.
Dr. Todd Palmer, MD, a family medicine and addiction medicine specialist and lead faculty and geriatric and addiction medicine curriculum coordinator for the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho will also teach.
The ECHO Idaho Opioid Addiction and Treatment and Behavioral Health in Primary Care programs were an overwhelming success.
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ECHO Idaho is led by the University of Idaho and WWAMI and supported by funding from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Funding for the MAT Waiver Training initiative was made possible (in part) by a grant from SAMHSA and support from the Idaho Rural Health Association and the Idaho Community Foundation. Learn more.
