Addiction Treatment Access Improvement Act of 2017
This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to revise the qualifications required for a practitioner to administer, dispense, or prescribe narcotic drugs for maintenance or detoxification treatment in an office-based opioid treatment program.
It increases the maximum patient limit for a qualifying practitioner who meets certain requirements. The maximum patient limit is the maximum number of patients a qualifying practitioner can treat at one time.
The bill expands qualifying practitioners to include additional nonphysician practitioners: clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and certified nurse midwives.
It makes permanent the authorization for certain nonphysician practitioners to become qualifying practitioners.
| Action Date | Type | Text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-04-25 | Committee | Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. | House committee actions |
| 2017-09-21 | Committee | Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations. | House committee actions |
| 2017-09-08 | Committee | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. | House committee actions |
| 2017-09-07 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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. | House floor actions |
| 2017-09-07 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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. | House floor actions |
| 2017-09-07 | IntroReferral | Introduced in House | Library of Congress |