The American Academy of Pain Management
The American Academy of Pain Management is an inclusive, interdisciplinary, and integrative organization serving clinicians who treat people with pain through education, setting standards of care, and advocacy.
The American Academy of Pain Management News and Research is made possible, in part, by educational grants from the following sponsers:
Legislation
United State/Branch of Government: U.S. House
Title: HR 5560 (Quality Cancer Care for Life Act of 2010)
Summary: A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to improve quality of cancer care and quality of life for patients and survivors by coordinating development and distribution of information about relieving pain, symptoms, side effects, and stress; increasing awareness of treatment and post-treatment health risks for survivors; enhancing research into symptom management and survivorship; increasing health care professional education and training; reducing health disparities in cancer treatment, symptom management, and survivorship care; and expanding and enhancing cancer registries; and for other purposes
Latest Action: June 17, 2010 Introduced
Sponsor: Berkley, Berman, Cao, et al
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State/Branch of Government: Massachusetts. Senate
Title: SB 2492 (An act relative to substance abuse and education)
Summary: Requires pain management and prescription drug abuse training for prescribing medical and healthcare providers and provides for prescription monitoring program
Latest Action: 06/21/2010 Previously HB 3479 now amended by substitution SB 2492.
Sponsor: Walsh S
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State/Branch of Government: California. Assembly
Title: AB 1826
Summary: Requires health service plan contracts and health insurance policies that cover outpatient prescription drug benefits to provide coverage for a drug that has been prescribed for the treatment of pain. Prohibits those contracts and policies from requiring the subscriber, enrolled, or insured to first use another drug or product. Specifies that these provisions do not pertain to a plan or policy under the Public Employees' Retirement System.
Latest Action: 06/02/10 Passed House. To Senate Committee on Health
Sponsor: Huffman and Feuer
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State/Branch of Government: Delaware. Senate
Title: SB 235
Summary: Creates the Delaware Prescription Monitoring Act; establishes a prescription monitoring program to monitor the prescribing and dispensing of all Schedule II, III, IV and V controlled substances by prescribers in this state, and to research the prescribing and dispensing of drugs of concern; provides that the PMP shall not interfere with the legal use of a controlled substance or drug of concern; provides that the Office of Controlled Substances shall ensure that the confidentiality of patient information
Latest Action: 06/24/2010 Passed House Eligible for Governor’s desk
Sponsor: Bushweller
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State/Branch of Government: Florida. Senate
Title: SB 2272
Summary: Relates to the regulation of privately owned pain- management clinics to include requiring the clinics to be registered, requiring such clinics to cease operations if the registration is denied or revoked, requiring a new registration application for a change of ownership of such clinic, the inspections of such clinics, specified acts by such clinic are considered a felony or misdemeanor, and disciplinary actions against health professional licensees of such clinics.
Latest Action: 06/04/10 Signed by Governor
Sponsor: Fasano
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State/Branch of Government: Ohio. House
Title: HB 547
Summary: Establishes licensing requirements for pain management clinics; Modifies the Laws governing the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System.
Latest Action: 06/08/10 Introduced
Sponsor: Garland
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State/Branch of Government: Tennessee. Senate
Title: SB 2928 (filed under HB 3015)
Summary: Relates to workers' compensation; provides that if a treating physician determines that pain is persisting for an injured worker beyond and expected period for healing, the physician may refer the worker for pain management, encompassing pharmacological, non-pharmacological and other approaches to reduce or stop pain sensations; provides conditions under which the worker shall be presumed to have reached maximum medical improvement.
Latest Action: 05/26/10 Signed by Governor.
Sponsor: Johnson J
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Regulatory Updates
State/Office: New Jersey. Board of Pharmacy
Subject: Rule adoptions for pharmacies relating to electronic prescriptions, transfer of prescriptions, filing and storage of controlled substance prescriptions, drug-dispensing devices, etc
Citation: New Jersey Register. June 22, 2010; 42(2)
Full Text: Available from local/county library