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Lawmakers hear bipartisan support for bill expanding nonpharmaceutical pain care
Summary
Sponsors and health-care advocates told the committee that a bill to require insurers to establish pain-management programs would expand access to alternatives to opioids, while insurers and the insurance department said they will work with sponsors on prior-authorization language.
A long-running measure to expand access to nonpharmaceutical pain treatments was presented to the committee as a bipartisan, stakeholder-refined bill designed to increase coverage of modalities such as physical therapy and other alternatives to opioid prescriptions.
Sponsor and stakeholder framing: The prime sponsor…
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