Comments: NY A05603 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly
Bill Title: Provides that with the first opioid prescription of each year for use in a setting other than a general hospital or nursing home under article twenty-eight of this chapter or facility under article thirty-one of the mental hygiene law, or when a practitioner is prescribing a controlled substance to a patient under the care of hospice, the prescriber shall prescribe an opioid antagonist when any of the following risk factors are present: a history of substance abuse disorder; high dose or cumulative prescriptions that result in over 50 morphine milligram equivalents per day; concurrent use of opioids and benzodiazepine or nonbenzodiazepine sedative hypnotics.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A05603 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A05603 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]
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