Enhancing Patient Access to Non-Opioid Treatment Options

Bill: 115-s-2911
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2018-05-22
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Alternative treatments

Department of Health and Human Services

Drug therapy

Government information and archives

Medicaid
Latest action: action_date: 2018-05-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-05-22
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Enhancing Patient Access to Non-Opioid Treatment Options</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services to develop guidance for states on non-opioid treatments that may be provided under Medicaid.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2911 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 22, 2018 Mr. Heller (for himself, Mr. Casey , Mr. Thune , Ms. Stabenow , Mr. Cornyn , and Mr. Nelson ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide guidance to States regarding Medicaid items and services for non-opioid pain treatment and management.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Enhancing Patient Access to Non-Opioid Treatment Options . 2. Guidance to States regarding Medicaid items and services for non-opioid pain treatment and management Not later than January 1, 2019, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, shall issue 1 or more final guidance documents, or update existing guidance documents, to States regarding mandatory and optional items and services that may be provided under a State plan under title XIX of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.), or under a waiver of such a plan, for non-opioid treatment and management of pain, including, but not limited to, evidence-based non-opioid pharmacological therapies and non-pharmacological therapies.