Responsible Education Achieves Care and Healthy Outcomes for Users' Treatment Act of 2018

To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide grants for eligible entities to provide technical assistance to outlier prescribers of opioids. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Responsible Education Achieves Care and Healthy Outcomes for Users’ Treatment Act of 2018 REACH OUT Act of 2018 2. Grants to provide technical assistance to outlier prescribers of opioids (a) Grants authorized The Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this section referred to as the Secretary (b) Use of funds Grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements awarded under subsection (a) shall be used to support eligible entities through technical assistance— (1) to educate and provide outreach to outlier prescribers of opioids about best practices for prescribing opioids; (2) to educate and provide outreach to outlier prescribers of opioids about non-opioid pain management therapies; and (3) to reduce the amount of opioid prescriptions prescribed by outlier prescribers of opioids. (c) Application Each eligible entity seeking to receive a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement under subsection (a) shall submit to the Secretary an application, at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require. (d) Geographic distribution In awarding grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements under this section, the Secretary shall prioritize establishing technical assistance resources in each State. (e) Definitions In this section: (1) Eligible entity The term eligible entity (A) an organization— (i) that has demonstrated experience providing technical assistance to health care professionals on a State or regional basis; and (ii) that has at least— (I) one individual who is a representative of consumers on its governing body; and (II) one individual who is a representative of health care providers on its governing body; or (B) an entity that is a quality improvement entity with a contract under part B of title XI of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1320c (2) Outlier prescriber of opioids The term outlier prescriber of opioids 42 U.S.C. 1395w–104(c)(4)(A) 42 U.S.C. 1395w–101 42 U.S.C. 1395w–21 (3) Prescribers The term prescriber (f) Funding For purposes of implementing this section, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall provide for the transfer from the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund established under section 1841 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395t June 12, 2018 Reported from the Committee on Energy and Commerce June 12, 2018 The Committee on Ways and Means

Summary: Responsible Education Achieves Care and Healthy Outcomes for Users’ Treatment Act of 2018 or the REACH OUT Act of 2018 (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to qualifying organizations in order to support efforts to curb outlier prescribers of opioids under the Medicare prescription drug benefit and Medicare Advantage prescription drug plans. (Sec. 3) Additionally, the bill temporarily eliminates the enhanced federal matching rate for Medicaid expenditures regarding specified medical services provided by certain managed care organizations.