civil liability or disciplinary action from the practitioner’s professional licensing board. (4) As used in this subsection: (A) pain that a practitioner reasonably ‘Acute pain’ means expects to last for three months or less, whether resulting from disease, accident, intentional trauma, or other cause. The term does not or pain being treated as part of cancer include ‘chronic pain’ care, chronic care, hospice care, palliative care, major trauma, major surgery, treatment of sickle cell disease, treatment of neonatal abstinence syndrome, 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. Article 15, Chapter 53, Title 44 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding: (A) The department shall develop and “Section 44531655. maintain as part of the prescription monitoring program a system to provide prescription report cards to practitioners to inform the practitioner about certain prescribing trends. The report card must provide, at a minimum: (1) a comparison of the number of prescriptions practitioner’s issued per month by therapeutic class code or by specific substances to peer averages by specialty throughout the State; (2) a comparison of the number of milligrams practitioner’s prescribed per month by therapeutic class code over by specific substances to peer averages by specialty throughout the State; (3) the total number of patients receiving ninety morphine milligram equivalents (MMEs) or more a day;
civil liability or disciplinary action from the practitioner’s professional licensing board. (4) As used in this subsection: (A) ‘Acute pain’ means pain that a practitioner reasonably expects to last for three months or less, whether resulting from disease, accident, intentional trauma, or other cause. The term does not include ‘chronic pain’ or pain being treated as part of cancer care, chronic care, hospice care, palliative care, major trauma, major surgery, treatment of sickle cell disease, treatment of neonatal abstinence syndrome, 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. Article 15, Chapter 53, Title 44 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding: “Section 44531655. (A) The department shall develop and maintain as part of the prescription monitoring program a system to provide prescription report cards to practitioners to inform the practitioner about certain prescribing trends. The report card must provide, at a minimum: (1) a comparison of the practitioner’s number of prescriptions issued per month by therapeutic class code or by specific substances to peer averages by specialty throughout the State; (2) a comparison of the practitioner’s number of milligrams prescribed per month by therapeutic class code over by specific substances to peer averages by specialty throughout the State; (3) the total number of patients receiving ninety morphine milligram equivalents (MMEs) or more a day;
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