Dr. Todd Graham Pain Management, Treatment, and Recovery Act of 2018
This bill establishes several requirements for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and alters requirements under Medicare and Medicare Advantage (MA), related to pain management and opioid use.
Among other requirements, the CMS must review payments under Medicare for opioid and non-opioid pain management procedures, specifically with respect to ambulatory outpatient surgical procedures and hospital outpatient department services. The CMS must ensure that there are no payment incentives for using opioids instead of non-opioid alternatives and must make revisions accordingly.
The bill also requires payment under Medicare to federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics that have health care practitioners who are newly certified to provide medication-assisted treatment (e.g., buprenorphine).
The bill also authorizes the suspension of payments to a pharmacy under the Medicare prescription drug benefit and MA prescription drug plans pending the investigation of a credible allegation of fraud by the pharmacy.
| Action Date | Type | Text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-25 | Committee | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. | House committee actions |
| 2018-06-20 | IntroReferral | Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate |
| 2018-06-19 | Floor | Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. | House floor actions |
| 2018-06-19 | Floor | On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5250-5252) | House floor actions |
| 2018-06-19 | Floor | DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6110. | House floor actions |
| 2018-06-19 | Floor | Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5249-5254) | House floor actions |
| 2018-06-19 | Floor | Mrs. Walorski moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill. | House floor actions |
| 2018-06-14 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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 |
| 2018-06-14 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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 |
| 2018-06-14 | IntroReferral | Introduced in House | Library of Congress |