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
41, 2002, to ensure the competent review in cases concerning the
5management, including, but not limited to, the undertreatment,
6undermedication, and overmedication of a patient’s pain.
7(2) The board may consult with entities such as the American
8Pain Society, the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the
9California Society of Anesthesiologists, the California Chapter of
10the American College of Emergency Physicians,begin insert the Osteopathic
11Medical Board of California,end insert and any other medical entity
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specializing in pain control therapies to develop the standards
13utilizing, to the extent they are applicable, current authoritative
14clinical practice guidelines.
15(b) The board shall update the standards adopted pursuant to
16subdivision (a) on or before July 1, 2015, and on or before July 1
17each fifth year thereafter.
18(c) The board shall convene a task force to develop and
19recommend the updated standards to the board. The task force, in
20developing the updated standards, may consult with the entities
21specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), the American Cancer
22Society, a physician who treats or evaluates patients as part of the
23workers’ compensation system,begin insert an osteopathic physician, a
24physician assistant,end insert
and specialists in pharmacology and addiction
25medicine.
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