Medtech reporting would change under new opioid law

A section of the recently-passed bill to address the opioid crisis will have implications for medtech.

The 250-page Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act (SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act) contains a provision that would require manufacturers of certain medical devices, drugs and biologics covered by Medicare, Medicaid, or the Children’s Health Insurance Program to report payments or other transfers of value made to “covered recipients.”

“Covered recipients,” as originally written in the sunshine provision of the Affordable Care Act, were only physicians and teaching hospitals. Section 6111 of SUPPORT would expand that to include physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists and certified nurse-midwives as of January 1, 2022. Also known as H.R. 6, the bill has passed both houses of Congress and is awaiting President Trump’s signature.

The reporting changes needn’t have anything to do with opioids, and this provision’s effective date is ambiguous, according to an FDA law blog post by the Washington, D.C. law firm Hyman, Phelps & McNamara. Stay tuned for CMS to clear this up in forthcoming regulations.

 

 

 

 

 

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