Bill > S2317

Introduced Session

Addiction Treatment Access Improvement Act of 2018 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.

Committee Categories

Ed Markey (D)*,  Tammy Baldwin (D),  Richard Blumenthal (D),  Sherrod Brown (D),  Susan Collins (R),  Maggie Hassan (D),  Martin Heinrich (D),  Angus King (I),  Jeff Merkley (D),  Rand Paul (R),  Jeanne Shaheen (D),  Chris Van Hollen (D), 

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (on 01/17/2018)

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