Relief of Chronic Pain Act of 2025

Steve Daines

Republican · MT · Senator

Source: Congress.gov · FEC

• Maria Cantwell (D-WA)Original· 2025-10-28
• Thom Tillis (R-NC)· 2026-05-11
• Tim Sheehy (R-MT)· 2026-05-12

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

2025-10-28

Source: Congress.gov

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.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

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