This year, more Oregon health care providers can recommend medical marijuana for patients – KTVZ

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A brand new regulation that went into impact in January permits extra attending well being care suppliers who’ve main accountability for the care and therapy of an individual identified with a debilitating medical situation to advocate medical marijuana to a affected person.

In Could 2021, the Oregon Legislature handed HB 3369, which expanded the definition of attending supplier below the foundations for the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP). After the brand new yr, attending suppliers allowed to advocate medical marijuana now embody:

• Physician of Drugs (MD) or Physician of Osteopathy (DO), licensed below ORS chapter 677.
• Doctor Assistant licensed below ORS 677.505 to 677.525.
• Nurse Practitioner licensed below ORS 678.375 to 678.390.
• Scientific Nurse Specialist licensed below ORS 678.370 and 678.372.
• Licensed Registered Nurse Anesthetist as outlined in ORS 678.245.
• Naturopathic Doctor licensed below ORS chapter 685.

Having “main accountability” means the attending supplier has one of many following roles:

• Supplies main well being care to the affected person.
• Supplies medical specialty care and therapy to the affected person.
• Is a marketing consultant who has been requested to look at and deal with the affected person by the affected person’s main care doctor licensed below ORS chapter 677, the affected person’s doctor assistant licensed below ORS chapter 677, or the affected person’s nurse practitioner licensed below ORS chapter 678.

The supplier should even have reviewed a affected person’s medical information on the affected person’s request and carried out an intensive bodily examination of the affected person; supplied or deliberate follow-up care; and documented these actions within the affected person’s medical document.

To advocate medical marijuana in Oregon, an attending supplier should consider the affected person’s well being historical past, carry out a bodily examination, and decide that the usage of marijuana might mitigate the signs or results of the affected person’s debilitating medical situation. Qualifying situations embody:

• Most cancers, glaucoma, a degenerative or pervasive neurological situation, constructive standing for human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or a facet impact associated to the therapy of these medical situations.
• A medical situation or therapy for a medical situation that produces, for a selected affected person, a number of of the next:
  • Cachexia.
  • Extreme ache.
  • Extreme nausea.
  • Seizures, together with however not restricted to seizures attributable to epilepsy.
  • Persistent muscle spasms, together with however not restricted to spasms attributable to a number of sclerosis.
• Publish-traumatic stress dysfunction.

An Attending Supplier Assertion (APS) kind should be signed by the attending supplier testifying that the affected person has been identified with a debilitating medical situation and that the medical use of marijuana might mitigate the signs or impact of the person’s debilitating medical situation. As an alternate, the attending supplier may provide the affected person with related parts of the affected person’s medical information containing the identical info on the APS.

The affected person is answerable for submitting the APS, or related medical information, with different required software paperwork, to the OMMP. The APS or related medical paperwork should be submitted inside 90 days of the attending supplier’s signature when a affected person applies for the primary time. When a affected person is renewing with OMMP, software materials should be submitted inside 90 days of their registration card expiration date and the APS should be signed inside that 90-day interval.

For the OMMP to just accept the APS from any of the suppliers listed above, aside from a MD and DO, the APS or related medical information should be dated on or after Jan. 1, 2022. An up to date APS kind for attending suppliers is out there on OMMP’s varieties web page.

For extra info, go to the OMMP web site at healthoregon.org/ommp. Data particular to attending suppliers is below the Attending Suppliers hyperlink.

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