OH HB485

Legislative Description

To require hospice care programs to establish policies to prevent diversion of controlled substances that contain opioids; to require a prescriber to obtain written informed consent from a minor's parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the minor before issuing a prescription for a controlled substance that contains an opioid to the minor and to establish sanctions for a prescriber's violation of this requirement; to establish requirements to be followed by prescribers in reviewing patient information in the State Board of Pharmacy's Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System; to license private, nonprofit therapeutic wilderness camps; to authorize the collection of additional health information through OARRS; to establish the Office of Human Services Innovation in the Department of Job and Family Services; to establish the Ohio Healthier Buckeye Council and the Ohio Healthier Buckeye Grant Program; and to authorize the State Medical Board to conduct a pilot program regarding the use of teleconferencing at its committee meetings.

Office of Human Services Innovation- establish

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