Michael Burgess

Patients afflicted with substance use disorder deserve to be treated by physicians who are armed with all of the necessary information.

This crisis, this opiate crisis, is devastating our country.

Today, we are here to discuss a bill that would make timely reforms to a privacy law that affects patient access to healthcare.

We have also favorably reported 57 bills to the full Energy and Commerce Committee.

The Subcommittee on Health will now come to order.

You as a distributor do not set the list price of the compounds that you were being questioned about.

I urge adoption of the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Burgess). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment No. 49 Offered by Mr…

I thank the gentlewoman for her participation in this evening's Special Order hour. Mr. Speaker, it is now my great privilege to yield to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Griffith), the vice chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and…

I thank the gentleman for his participation this evening. He brings some valuable insights, and I am always grateful to hear his perspective from the State of Michigan. I now go way out West to California. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the…

I thank the gentleman from West Virginia for his comments. Mr. Speaker, now I am pleased to yield to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Walberg).

I thank the gentleman from Mississippi for participating in our Special Order tonight. I thank him for his leadership in the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and the work that he has done to help control this crisis. I now…

I thank the chairman of the full committee for his participation in this hour tonight. The chairman is correct; our committee has a history of working in a bipartisan fashion. This, obviously, is an illness that can strike regardless of…

I have said it earlier, I am very proud of my Pennsylvania experience.

I think the FERC is well equipped, if you look at some cases that we've had over the last decade.

I am concerned about that because I think we will drive some of these individuals from their structured maintenance on an opiate for their chronic pain, and they will look for other avenues, and as we all know, those other avenues are…

Do you agree that it is important to know how those dollars are being spent and where they are being spent?

We are the payer here. The federal government is the Aetna, United, the Cigna.

I think it is important, and I don't think there was anything that we heard today that was superfluous or duplicative or anything that actually wasn't important for us to hear.

I appreciate that you are focusing on providers, I appreciate you are focusing on patients, but I have got to tell you, one of the things that has been frustrating for me, the CMS has a lot of data at your disposal, and we have come up…

While they may be habituated they are not addicted.

All Federal dollars need to be accounted for.

I see that as continuity of care and actually good patient care.

Authorizing pharmacists clinical services under Medicare Part B, which H.R. 529 accomplishes, will go a long way to empower pharmacists and give them an opportunity to help address prescription drug misuse and abuse.

I hope to work with my colleagues to address these concerns so that we can all support concrete and thoughtful legislation that will actually help address the crisis.

I have significant concerns regarding one of the discussion drafts to add a pain assessment to the Welcome to Medicare physical.