Health care; authorizing Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist to provide interventional pain management services and operate certain facilities under specified conditions. Effective date.

SB 442 allows Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) in Oklahoma to provide specific interventional pain management treatments, such as nerve ablation, spinal injections, and fluoroscopy-guided procedures, under defined conditions. CRNAs may operate freestanding pain facilities only when collaborating with a board-certified physician who is available for immediate on-site consultation. The bill explicitly prohibits CRNAs from performing surgical techniques, prescribing opioids, or conducting procedural sedation. This directly affects CRNAs, pain management facilities, and patients seeking non-surgical chronic pain treatments under these new parameters.