SB337: Revises provisions relating to opioids. (BDR 40-204)

Legislative Summary

AN ACT relating to health care; requiring certain health care facilities and certain providers of health care to provide patients with a form for a non-opioid directive and offer patients treatments that do not utilize an opioid under certain circumstances; requiring the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services to create a form for a non-opioid directive; requiring the Administrator of the Division to appoint an advisory board to monitor compliance with laws and regulations relating to the non-opioid directive; requiring certain policies of health insurance to include coverage for at least one drug that is an alternative to opioids; requiring certain insurers to provide the form for a non-opioid directive to new insureds; revising the manner by which money in the Fund for a Resilient Nevada allocates money to projects and grants; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.