HB 1164 Summary

• Amends Hawaii's Electronic Prescription Accountability System to require annual determination of mean and median opioid prescription quantities by practitioner specialty or practice type.

• Mandates practitioners whose prescribing exceeds the mean or median for their category receive notice of their percentile ranking compared to peers in the same specialty.

• Makes percentile ranking information confidential, distributable only to the affected practitioner, and inadmissible as evidence in civil or criminal proceedings.

• Prohibits licensure boards from using percentile ranking as the sole basis for investigating a practitioner.

• Requires the state agency and licensure boards to coordinate in providing resources to prescribers about alternative pain management practices and methods to modify prescribing behavior.