To establish a hospice exception from a law that prohibits prescribers who do not have a “bona fide prescriber-patient relationship" from prescribing controlled substance painkillers. This restriction requires a medical service provider to have reviewed a patient’s relevant medical records, and completed a full medical history and current condition assessment including an examination. The proposed exception is intended to let hospice care providers adjust medication to the meet serious and rapidly changing needs of a dying individual.   Official Text and Analysis.

Refer to the Committee on Ways and Means with the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted.

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.