HF 154: Relating to the treatment of opioid use disorders by physician assistants

What it does

This bill allows a physician assistant to prescribe and administer buprenorphine and other medications used in the medication-assisted treatment of opioid use disorders in a manner consistent with federal law and regulations. The bill requires the board of medicine to adopt rules to administer the bill, which shall allow a physician assistant who has received a waiver from the federal drug enforcement administration to prescribe and administer a medication described in the bill if the physician assistant’s supervising physician is eligible to receive such a waiver.

Lobbying · 1 for, 0 against

For: Iowa Physician Assistant Society

In plain words

1. January 30, 2023Filed in the House and sent to the Health and Human Services committee