Fibromyalgia & Chronic Pain LIFE Spring 2015, Issue 11 | Page 22
NATIONAL PAIN STRATEGY
A Comprehensive Population
Health Level Strategy for Pain
by Jan Favero Chambers
In 2009, the U.S. Senate Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions
(HELP) Committee voted unanimously to include the National
Pain Care Policy Act 2009 (S660)
into the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA).
The key provisions included:
• Mandating an Institute of
Medicine conference on p