[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5719 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5719

   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to revise certain 
  measures used under the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare 
       Providers and Systems survey relating to pain management.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 9, 2018

 Mrs. Black (for herself and Mr. O'Halleran) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to revise certain 
  measures used under the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare 
       Providers and Systems survey relating to pain management.

    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 ``Reduce Overprescribing Opioids in 
Treatment Act of 2018'' or the ``ROOT Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. REVISING MEASURES USED UNDER THE HOSPITAL CONSUMER ASSESSMENT 
              OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS AND SYSTEMS SURVEY RELATING TO 
              PAIN MANAGEMENT.

    Section 1886(b)(3)(B)(viii) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395ww(b)(3)(B)(viii)) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subclause:
    ``(XII) With respect to the Hospital Consumer Assessment of 
Healthcare Providers and Systems survey (or a successor survey), 
beginning not later than January 1, 2020, such survey may not include 
questions about communication by hospital staff with an individual 
about such individual's pain unless such questions take into account, 
as applicable, whether an individual experiencing pain was informed 
about risks associated with the use of opioids and about non-opioid 
alternatives for the treatment of pain.''.
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