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This bill, the Combating Opioid Abuse for Care in Hospitals Act of 2018 (COACH Act of 2018), has several key provisions: 1. It requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to publish guidance for hospitals on pain management and opioid-use disorder prevention strategies for Medicare beneficiaries. 2. It directs CMS to convene a technical expert panel to recommend opioid and opioid-use disorder quality measures for possible use in hospital payment and reporting models under Medicare. 3. It mandates the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convene a technical expert panel to recommend ways to reduce opioid use in surgical settings and best practices for pain management during the perioperative period, and to report on data related to post-operative opioid use. 4. It requires CMS to publish and periodically update all guidance issued since January 1, 2016, related to the prescription of opioids for Medicare beneficiaries. The overall aim of the bill is to address the opioid crisis by improving pain management strategies, reducing opioid use, and enhancing data collection and quality measures related to opioid use in hospitals and for Medicare beneficiaries.

Budget and Finance, Health and Social Services

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