ENHANCING PATIENT ACCESS TO NON-OPIOID TREATMENT OPTIONS.

SEC. 1010. [42 U.S.C. 1396a note] ENHANCING PATIENT ACCESS TO NON-OPIOID TREATMENT OPTIONS. Not later than January 1, 2019, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, shall issue 1 or more final guidance documents, or update existing guidance documents, to States regarding mandatory and optional items and services that may be provided under a State plan under title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.), or under a waiver of such a plan, for non-opioid treatment and management of pain, including, but not limited to, evidence-based, non-opioid pharmacological therapies and non-pharmacological therapies.