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Committee advances amendment to expand access to nonopioid chronic‑pain therapies
Summary
A House committee favorably straw‑voted an amendment (290H) aiming to improve access to nonopioid chronic‑pain therapies by limiting payer barriers; the change adapts language used successfully in Maine and Massachusetts after stakeholders raised cost and feasibility concerns for a fuller mandate.
A state House committee on Thursday gave a favorable straw vote to amendment 290H, an insurance measure that would ease insurer barriers to nonopioid treatments for chronic pain while avoiding a broad coverage mandate that the state could not fund.
The amendment mirrors language used in Maine and Massachusetts and was developed after stakeholder meetings this summer, sponsors said. Cindy Steinberg, a member of a federal HHS pain‑treatment commission and a contributor to similar laws elsewhere, joined the process as…
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