Relief of Chronic Pain Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure appropriate access to non-opioid pain management drugs for chronic pain conditions under part D of the Medicare program.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Relief of Chronic Pain Act of 2025
This bill reduces cost-sharing and prohibits the imposition of certain utilization requirements under the Medicare prescription drug benefit for certain non-opioid drugs for chronic pain management.
Specifically, the bill requires such drugs to be covered without a deductible and to be placed on the lowest cost-sharing tier (if any). The bill also prohibits the imposition of prior authorization requirements (i.e., requiring prior approval from a plan) or step therapy requirements (i.e., requiring the use of alternative drugs before a drug is covered under a plan) with respect to such drugs.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE
- AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
- BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION
- PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE
- AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
- PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Treasury, Dept of
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- White House Office
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Education, Dept of
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3064: Relief of Chronic Pain Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3064/
"S. 3064: Relief of Chronic Pain Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3064/.
S. 3064, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3064/.
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