Opioids
This week, the CDC launched a suite of new opioid prescribing guideline resources for providers, including a mobile app and video series. This is a follow-up to their CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, launched last spring, to encourage safer and more effective pain management…
The Senate today passed the 21st Century Cures Act, and President Obama is expected to sign the bill, which passed the House Dec. 1, into law.
Please contact your senators today and urge them to support the revised 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 34), which is designed to overhaul drug development and accelerate new cures and treatments.
Please contact your representative today and urge him or her to support the revised version of the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 34), which is designed to overhaul drug development and accelerate new cures and treatments.
House leaders Nov. 25 unveiled a revised 21st Century Cures bill, which is intended to overhaul drug development and accelerate new cures and treatments.
Every day, America’s hospitals and health systems are on the front lines of combatting the epidemic of addiction to prescription opioids or heroin. This public health crisis is rapidly growing in communities across the country and can no longer be ignored.
President Obama July 22 signed into law the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, S. 524, legislation designed to help stem the epidemic of opioid abuse through education, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.
Progress on addressing the opioid epidemic.
Starting in fiscal year 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes to no longer use the results from three pain management questions in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey in determining hospitals’ value-based purchasing program scores,…