not include or pain being treated as part of cancer ‘chronic pain’ care, chronic care, hospice care, palliative care, or medicationassisted treatment for substance use disorder. (B) means pain that typically lasts for longer ‘Chronic pain’ than three months or that lasts beyond the time of normal tissue healing. (C) means acute pain experienced ‘Postoperative pain’ immediately after a surgical procedure. (D) means a procedure performed for ‘Surgical procedure’ the purpose of altering the human body by incision or destruction of tissues as part of the practice of medicine such as diagnostic or therapeutic treatment of conditions or disease processes by use of instruments and includes lasers, ultrasound, ionizing, radiation, scalpels, probes, or needles that cause localized alteration or transportation of live human tissue by cutting, burning, vaporizing, freezing, suturing, probing, or manipulating by closed reduction for major dislocations and fractures, or otherwise altering by any mechanical, thermal, lightbased, electromagnetic, or chemical means.” SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor. XX
not include ‘chronic pain’ or pain being treated as part of cancer care, chronic care, hospice care, palliative care, or medicationassisted treatment for substance use disorder. (B) ‘Chronic pain’ means pain that typically lasts for longer than three months or that lasts beyond the time of normal tissue healing. (C) ‘Postoperative pain’ means acute pain experienced immediately after a surgical procedure. (D) ‘Surgical procedure’ means a procedure performed for the purpose of altering the human body by incision or destruction of tissues as part of the practice of medicine such as diagnostic or therapeutic treatment of conditions or disease processes by use of instruments and includes lasers, ultrasound, ionizing, radiation, scalpels, probes, or needles that cause localized alteration or transportation of live human tissue by cutting, burning, vaporizing, freezing, suturing, probing, or manipulating by closed reduction for major dislocations and fractures, or otherwise altering by any mechanical, thermal, lightbased, electromagnetic, or chemical means.” SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor. XX
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