Senate committee passes bill to address newborn opioid dependency
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee today approved by voice vote the Protecting Our Infants Act (S.799/H.R.1462). The AHA-supported legislation would direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a strategy and recommendations to decrease the number of infants with opioid dependency, and encourages HHS to work with states to improve the public health response to this epidemic. The legislation is sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA) in the Senate and by Reps. Katherine Clark (D-MA) and Steve Stivers (R-OH) in the House, which approved the measure earlier this month. The full Senate is expected to consider the bill soon.
Related News Articles
Headline
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has approved a Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver allowing West Virginia to expand its benefits…
Headline
Eliminating the Medicaid Institutions for Mental Disease exclusion for adults under age 65 would help improve access to treatment for those with severe or…
Headline
In a letter this week, the AHA again urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to take specific actions to address and prevent the serious…
Headline
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today deactivated its emergency operations center for Zika virus. “Since the 2016 EOC activation for Zika…
Headline
More than 2 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis were reported in the U.S. in 2016, a record high, according to the latest annual report by the…
Headline
The New Jersey Hospital Association yesterday named as its next president and CEO Cathleen Bennett, an attorney who currently serves as commissioner of the New…