November 14, 2024
The MMA, along with nearly 130 other organizations, signed on to a letter on November 12 urging U.S. Congressional leadership to pass bipartisan legislation that expands access to methadone for opioid use disorder (OUD).
The Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act (M-OTAA) would expand access to methadone treatment for OUD by “enabling board-certified addiction specialist physicians to prescribe it in their usual clinic settings, utilizing patients’ existing pharmacies, under the oversight of the same federal regulatory bodies that already ensure safety monitoring at OTPs,” the letter to House and Senate leadership said.
Opioid overdoses account for more than 70,000 preventable deaths in America each year.
For more information on the MMA’s efforts to curb the opioid epidemic, click here.
May 29, 2025
As the Legislature works to complete its work on the state’s two-year budget, another deadline is looming. Legislators are required to pass a balanced budget before the end of the fiscal year—June 30, 2025. If they don’t meet that deadline, the state will begin a partial shutdown.
May 29, 2025
Registration has opened for the Empowering Physicians: A Night of Reflection and Engagement event, featuring best-selling author Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD.
May 29, 2025
The AMA is encouraging physicians to contact their U.S. senators and urge them to revise the reconciliation bill passed recently by the U.S. House of Representatives. While the bill includes language that would stabilize Medicare physician payments, it also threatens to cripple Medicaid and CHIP.