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Wisconsin: medical director and delegated services for an addiction medicine or MAT clinic
Whether Wisconsin requires a physician medical director for an addiction medicine or MAT clinic, the qualifications, duties, and what the state says about the staff who deliver protocol-driven services.
Qualifications
Physician licensed under Wis. Stat. ch. 448 (medicine and surgery, including osteopathy); Wis. Admin. Code DHS 75.59 further requires at least 1 year of experience in addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry (board certification preferred, or working toward it, per DHS 75.03's medical-director definition) and, if that experience requirement cannot be met despite documented recruitment efforts, a specific plan to acquire equivalent training/skills within 4 months of hire.
Duties the rule assigns
- Overseeing all medical services performed by the opioid treatment program
- Ensuring the program's compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local statutes/rules governing medical treatment of opioid use disorder
- Reviewing and countersigning patient treatment plans on a quarterly basis
- Approving take-home medication privileges and changes in take-home dosing frequency
- Maintaining valid DEA registration and any required buprenorphine/methadone waiver documentation
- Documenting evidence of physiological/psychological dependence, addiction history, and any state-opioid-treatment-authority (SOTA)-granted admission exceptions in the patient's case record before the initial dose is administered
Notes
The program sponsor need not be a physician, but the service must separately employ a licensed physician as medical director (DHS 75.59), distinct from the federal 42 C.F.R. Part 8 baseline. A secondary source also describes an on-site physical-presence floor (at least 40% of medication-administration hours, and 20% in the first 60 days); confirm the current DHS 75.59 subsection numbering before relying on specific paragraph letters.
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