IMPROVE Addiction Care Act
Summary
Improving Medicaid Programs' Response to Overdose Victims and Enhancing Addiction Care Act or the IMPROVE Addiction Care Act This bill establishes additional requirements for state Medicaid drug-use review programs with respect to individuals who experience opioid-related overdoses. Specifically, programs must include protocols that (1) connect individuals who have experienced an opioid-related overdose within a certain period to appropriate treatment; (2) notify providers who prescribe opioids about subsequent fatal overdoses; (3) ensure providers are notified about an individual's history of opioid-use disorder, overdoses, or poisonings; and (4) educate providers about proper prescribing practices for these individuals.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced May 12, 2021
Last action May 12, 2021
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Committee
1
May 12, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
upper
May 12, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Patrick J. Toomey
RRepublican
Co
Joe Manchin, III
IIndependent
Co
Marsha Blackburn
RRepublican
Co
Thomas R. Carper
DDemocratic
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