DEA MATE Act

DEA Medication Access and Training Expansion (MATE) Act

Under the federal MATE Act of 2022, all practitioners applying for or renewing a DEA registration must have a minimum of eight hours training on:

• the treatment and management of patients with opioid or other substance use disorders, or
• safe pharmacological management of dental pain.
  
  

Beginning June 27, 2023, practitioners will be required to affirm on their initial or renewal DEA application whether they have completed the one-time training. The date in which practitioners must complete the one-time training depends on each practitioner’s renewal deadline or date they initially apply.

According to the DEA:

• Training can occur in multiple sessions.
• Previous training from a qualified entity before the law’s effective date of December 22, 2022, will count.
• Previous training can include courses completed with PDA to fulfill the Act 124 CE requirement for dentists with a current DEA registration or who use another DEA registration (as permitted by law) renewing their PA license to practice dentistry.
• Training may take place in-person or virtually.
• Practitioners who completed eight hours of relevant coursework at an accredited dental school within five years of June 27, 2023, automatically satisfy the requirement.
• Dentists who took courses with PDA for the renewal periods ending in March 2019, 2021 and 2023 already have six of the eight hours needed to fulfill the one-time, eight-hour training. It pays to be a PDA member!

It is also important to note that Pennsylvania’s own requirement for dentists to obtain two hours of opioid-related CE will count toward the DEA’s new one-time eight-hour training requirement.