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

Resolutions

March 1, 2013

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed) 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.

Note: Effective August 13, 2024, AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine is now Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed).