HHS Recommendations on Chronic Pain Due Late October MUST READ

This is a must read article for pain patients in 

The National Pain Report

HHS Recommendations on Chronic Pain Due Late October

You have another chance to tell the Department of Health and Human Services your story...

It’s going to be the end of October before we see the set of draft recommendations of The Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force. Once the recommendations are released, there will be an extensive public comment period where the patients, providers, and policy makers can weigh in.

The Article Say's

 "Tellingly, the Task Force will recommend against imposition of any mandated numerical daily dose threshold. This position in effect contradicts much of the CDC Guidelines and State regulations based on them".

"It will be interesting to see if the final report extends this principle to 2019 rule changes of HHS/CMS authorizing “soft” and “hard” edits of prescription plans at 50 and 200 Morphine Milligram Equivalent Daily Dose levels".

"Mandatory or coercive tapering of high dose legacy patients is unjustified and risky unless some condition in the individual patient’s health justifies such action". 

The 90-day comment period will trigger a process that will result in a final report to Congress in May 2019.

LINK TO ARTICLE: National Pain Report Article