Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Enhancing Patient Access to Non-Opioid Treatment Options”.
Enhancing Patient Access to Non-Opioid Treatment Options
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.
Sec. 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.