Title: COG Act of 2018
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Centralized Opioid Guidance Act of 2018 or the COG Act of 2018
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to publish and periodically update all guidance issued since January 1, 2016, related to the prescription of opioids for Medicare beneficiaries.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5777 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5777

To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make available 
    on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website opioid 
  prescribing guidance applicable to individuals entitled to benefits 
   under part A or enrolled under part B of the Medicare program and 
                   update such guidance periodically.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 11, 2018

Mr. Buchanan (for himself and Mr. Lamb) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition 
      to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make available 
    on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website opioid 
  prescribing guidance applicable to individuals entitled to benefits 
   under part A or enrolled under part B of the Medicare program and 
                   update such guidance periodically.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Centralized Opioid Guidance Act of 
2018'' or the ``COG Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING THE POSTING AND ANNUAL UPDATING OF OPIOID PRESCRIBING 
              GUIDANCE FOR MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (in 
this section referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall post on the public 
website of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services all guidance 
published by the Department of Health and Human Services on or after 
January 1, 2016, relating to the prescribing of opioids and applicable 
to opioid prescriptions for individuals entitled to benefits under part 
A of title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395c et seq.) 
or enrolled under part B of such title of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1395j et 
seq.).
    (b) Update of Guidance.--
            (1) Periodic update.--The Secretary shall, in consultation 
        with the entities specified in paragraph (2), periodically (as 
        determined appropriate by the Secretary) update guidance 
        described in subsection (a) and revise the posting of such 
        guidance on the website described in such subsection.
            (2) Consultation.--The entities specified in this paragraph 
        are the following:
                    (A) Medical professional organizations.
                    (B) Providers and suppliers of services (as such 
                terms are defined in section 1861 of the Social 
                Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x)).
                    (C) Health care consumers or groups representing 
                such consumers.
                    (D) Other entities determined appropriate by the 
                Secretary.
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