1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Improving Medicaid Programs' Response to Overdose Victims and Enhancing Addiction Care Act or the IMPROVE Addiction Care Act . 2. Encouraging appropriate prescribing under medicaid for victims of opioid overdose (a) In general Section 1927(g)(2) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396r–8(g)(2) ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (E) Additional drug use review requirements As part of a State’s prospective and retrospective drug use review under subparagraphs (A) and (B), as applicable, the State shall, not later than January 1, 2022, develop and implement, or review and update, protocols to, subject to any applicable privacy or confidentiality protections— (i) identify individuals receiving benefits under this title who have experienced a nonfatal opioid-related overdose within the last 5 years, to the extent that such data is available, and make a good faith effort to connect these individuals to treatment options that have been determined appropriate by the Secretary; (ii) if an individual receiving benefits under this title experiences a fatal overdose that is opioid-related (or, if specified by the Secretary, related to another covered outpatient drug), not later than 6 months after the date of such overdose— (I) notify each provider that, during the period (to be established by the Secretary) preceding such overdose, prescribed opioids (or such other specified covered outpatient drug, if applicable) to such individual of such overdose; and (II) provide each such provider with educational materials on prescribing opioids (or such other specified covered outpatients drugs, if applicable); (iii) ensure that a provider who is treating an individual receiving benefits under this title has notice of the individual's diagnosis or history of opioid use disorder, opioid poisoning diagnosis, or history of nonfatal opioid-related overdose