Evidence status: CURRENT STATE IMPLEMENTATION TOOL. New Hampshire’s Office of Professional Licensure and Certification publishes a prescriber checklist that operationalizes the chronic-pain opioid rules into a practical charting tool.

What the checklist tracks

The checklist identifies chronic-pain requirements including:

• Written Treatment Agreement.
• Consideration of pain consultation for patients receiving 100 mg morphine equivalent daily dose for more than 90 days.
• Reevaluation of the Treatment Plan and opioid use at least twice per year.
• PDMP review at least twice per year.
• Urine drug screening at least annually for patients taking opioids longer than 90 days.

Checklist exemptions

The checklist repeats the rule’s exemption from the treatment-agreement and periodic-testing requirements for long-term non-rehabilitative facility residents whose opioids are administered by licensed staff, and for patients with episodic/intermittent pain receiving no more than 50 dose units in a three-month period.

What the checklist is

This is an implementation and compliance tool, not a substitute for RSA 318-B:41 or Med 502. It is useful because it shows how the state translates the legal standards into day-to-day prescribing documentation.

Source

• Checklist for the Prescribing of Opioids for the Management or Treatment of Pain

Reviewed: October 4, 2026.

Evidence boundary: The checklist summarizes the rules. Where wording differs, the statute and applicable professional rule control.