[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2911 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2911

   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.


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                   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

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                                 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.

    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 ``Enhancing Patient Access to Non-
Opioid Treatment Options''.

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.
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