SB273 SFA Stollings 2-14 #1

Baker 7816

Senator Stollings moved to amend the bill on page twenty-seven, section eight, lines eighteen through twenty-three, by striking out all of subsection (a) and inserting in lieu thereof a new subsection, designated subsection (a), to read as follows:

(a) When patients seek treatment for any of the myriad conditions that cause pain, a health care practitioner shall consider prescribing any of the following treatment alternatives, based on the practitioner’s clinical judgment and the availability of the treatment, before starting a patient on an opioid: physical therapy, acupuncture, massage therapy, osteopathic manipulation, chronic pain management program, and chiropractic care. If the practitioner does not prescribe any of the treatment alternatives, the practitioner shall note the reasoning for the decision in the patient’s medical record.

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