A.R.S. § 36-448.01: Definitions

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Medication-assisted treatment" has the same meaning prescribed in section 32-3201.01.

2. "Pain management clinic":

(a) Means a health care institution or a private office or clinic of a health care provider licensed under title 32 in which a majority of the facility's patients in any month are prescribed opioids, benzodiazepines, barbiturates or carisoprodol, not including for medication-assisted treatment, by a health care provider from the health care institution or private office or clinic for more than ninety days in a twelve-month period.

(b) Does not include a hospital, urgent care center, ambulatory surgical center, hospice facility or nursing care institution.