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 90 morphine milligram equivalents or higher per day; concurrent use of opioids and benzodiazepine or nonbenzodiazepine sedative hypnotics.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2966--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 26, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, BROUK -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --
reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee
on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prescribing an
opioid antagonist with a patient's first opioid prescription in a
given year
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3309 of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. With the first prescription to a particular patient of an opioid of
4 each year for use in a setting other than a general hospital or nursing
5 home under article twenty-eight of this chapter or facility under arti-
6 cle thirty-one of the mental hygiene law, or when a practitioner is
7 prescribing a controlled substance to a patient under the care of
8 hospice as defined by section four thousand two of this chapter, the
9 prescriber shall prescribe an opioid antagonist when any of the follow-
10 ing risk factors are present: (a) a history of substance use disorder;
11 (b) high dose or cumulative prescriptions that result in ninety morphine
12 milligram equivalents or higher per day; (c) concurrent use of opioids
13 and benzodiazepine or nonbenzodiazepine sedative hypnotics.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
15 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
16 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
17 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
18 completed by the commissioner of health on or before such effective
19 date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03417-05-1
