SB 500, as amended, Lieu. Medical practice: pain management.
Existing law establishes the Medical Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law, among other things, required the board to develop standards before June 1, 2002, to ensure the competent review in cases concerning the management, including, but not limited to, the undertreatment, undermedication, and overmedication of a patient’s pain.
This bill would require the board, on or before July 1, 2015, to update those standards. The bill would require the board to convene a task force to develop and recommend the updated standards to the board. The bill would also require the board to update those standards on or before July 1 each 5th year thereafter.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 2241.6 of the Business and Professions
2Code is amended to read:
(a) (1) The board shall develop standards before June
21, 2002, to ensure the competent review in cases concerning the
3management, including,
but not limited to, the undertreatment,
4undermedication, and overmedication of a patient’s pain.
5(2) Thebegin delete divisionend deletebegin insert boardend insert may consult with entities such as the
6American Pain Society, the American Academy of Pain Medicine,
7the California Society of Anesthesiologists, the California Chapter
8of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and any other
9medical entity specializing in pain control therapies to develop the
10standards utilizing, to the extent they are applicable, current
11authoritative clinical practice guidelines.
12(b) The board shall update the standards adopted pursuant to
13subdivision (a)
on or before July 1, 2015, and on or before July 1
14each fifth year thereafter.
15(c) The board shall convene a task force to develop and
16recommend the updated standards to the board. The task force, in
17developing the updated standards,begin delete shallend deletebegin insert mayend insert consult with the
18entities specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), the American
19Cancer Society,begin insert a physician who treats or evaluates patients as
20part of the workers’ compensation system,end insert and specialists in
21pharmacology and addiction medicine.
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