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H.R. 5685, The Medicare Opioid Safety Education Act of 2018 (CBO Report for Congress)

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Congress 115th
Date Requested May 9, 2018
Requested By House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Date Sent June 6, 2018
Description:

On May 9 and May 17, 2018, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce ordered 59 bills to be reported related to the nation’s response to the opioid epidemic. Because of the large number of related bills ordered reported by the Committee, CBO is publishing a single comprehensive document that includes estimates for each piece of legislation.

H.R. 5685, the Medicare Opioid Safety Education Act of 2018, would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to include information on opioid use, pain management, and nonopioid pain management treatments in future editions of Medicare & You, the program’s handbook for beneficiaries, starting on January 1, 2019. Because H.R. 5685 would add information to an existing administrative document, CBO estimates that enacting the bill would have no budgetary effect.

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