Long-Term Opioid Prescribing
(Adopted May 2020)
The Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) developed a comprehensive Guideline on Prescribing Opioids for Pain in June 2015. The Guidelines were subsequently adopted by the Bree Collaborative at the July 2015 meeting. This workgroup will design and carry out strategies to implement the Guidelines. This workgroup met from December 2015 to April 2020.
Previous Meeting Materials
Supporting Materials
Letter from the Health Care Authority Accepting the Postoperative Prescribing Guidelines
Letter from the HCA Accepting Dental Prescribing Guidelines
Letter from Health Care Authority Accepting Opioid Prescribing Metrics
Opioid Guideline Implementation Charter
Agency Medical Directors Group Interagency Guideline on Prescribing Opioids for Pain
AMDG Guideline Summary
Workgroup Members
| Name | Title | Organization |
| Gary Franklin, MD, MPH (Co-Chair) | Medical Director | Washington State Department of Labor and Industries |
| Charissa Fotinos, MD (Co-Chair) | Deputy Chief Medical Officer | Washington State Health Care Authority |
| Andrew Saxon, MD (Co-Chair) | Director, Center of Excellence in Substance Abuse Treatment and Education (CESATE) | VA Puget Sound Health Care System |
| Rose Bigham and Cyndi Hoenhous (Co-Chairs) | Patient Advocates | Washington Patients in Intractable Pain |
| Pamela Stitzlein Davies, MS, ARNP, FAANP | Nurse Practitioner | Departments of Neurology & Nursing, University of Washington |
| Andrew Friedman, MD | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | Virginia Mason Medical Center |
| Kelly Golob, DC | Chiropractor | Tumwater Chiropractic Center |
| Dan Kent, MD | Chief Medical Officer | UnitedHealthcare |
| Kathy Lofy, MD | Chief Science Officer | Washington State Department of Health |
| Jaymie Mai, PharmD | Pharmacy Manager | Washington State Department of Labor and Industries |
| Mark Murphy, MD | Addiction Medicine and Pain Management | MultiCare Health System |
| Anne Blake-Nickels | Patient Advocate | |
| Gregory Rudolph, MD | Addiction Medicine | Swedish Pain Services |
| Jennifer Davies-Sandler | Patient Advocate | |
| Mark Stephens | President | Change Management Consulting |
| Mark Sullivan, MD, PhD | Psychiatrist | University of Washington |
| David Tauben, MD | Chief of Pain Medicine | University of Washington Medical Center |
| Gregory Terman MD, PhD | Professor | Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and the Graduate Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, University of Washington |
| John Vassall, MD, FACP | Physician Executive for Quality and Safety | Comagine Health |
| Michael Von Korff, ScD | Senior Investigator | Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute |
| Mia Wise, DO | Medical Director, Collaborative Healthcare Solutions | Premera Blue Cross |