CDC Opiate Prescribing Guidelines- An update by Larry Kobak Esq.

Larry Kobak, Esq. on CDC Guidelines: What You Need to Know! PendingDec 14, 2022 1 CME Available What you need to know: The Updated CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain Monday, November 21 at 6:00 pm EDT NYSPS Legal Briefs  New 2022 CDC Guidelines on OPIOID USE FOR TREATMENT OF PAIN The CE experience for this Webinar is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/p1nfCi The Guidelines state very clearly: “Nonopioid therapies are preferred for subacute and chronic pain.” If you are using opioids for subacute or chronic pain, which including both terms, means treating pain for 1 month or more, your chart must contain some justification for the use of opioids. This is an extremely important matter. Appropriate reasons, such as a prior treater, attempted various nonopioid treatments of some kind that failed. There must be a very good reason why opioids were tried. It must be documented.   Larry Kobak, Esq. Senior Counsel Frier Levitt ATTORNEYS AT LAW 101 Greenwich Street, Suite 8B New York, NY 10006