LEGISLATIVE ISSUES
MSIPP was founded in 2002 and since then, has worked to advance many issues important to interventional pain management. On both a local and national level, MSIPP has promoted changes in laws, regulations and other government action in to preserve patient access to pain-relieving techniques and services while strengthening the specialty of interventional pain management.
LEGISLATIVE ISSUES
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Minnesota Prescription Monitoring Act
By late March, prescribing providers will be able to tap into the system to identify patients who get too many habit-forming medicines.
Minnesota joins 33 other states that monitor prescriptions for controlled substances such as amphetamines, barbiturates and even some diet pills. The state database - funded by a $400,000 federal grant - is expected to track more than a million prescriptions a year. Click on the link below to read more...
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