F13 - Reducing Legislative Requirement for Treatment of Pain in Long-Term Care Facilities

Resolutions

March 1, 2013

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine and its state affiliate chapters support and work with appropriate parties towards creating an exemption for physicians prescribing pain medication in nursing home facilities from controlled substance prescribing requirements, such as the Florida Statute 456.44, subsection 3.