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 24 months after the date of enactment of this subparagraph, develop and implement, or review and update, protocols to, subject to any applicable State or Federal privacy or confidentiality protections that could preclude such protocols— (i) identify individuals receiving benefits under this title who have experienced a nonfatal opioid-related overdose within a look-back period (to be determined by the Secretary except that such period shall not be less than 1 year and shall not exceed 5 years), to the extent that such data is available, and make a good faith effort to connect these individuals to treatment options and recovery support services 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 (without regard to whether such overdose was related to a covered outpatient drug), or, if specified by the Secretary, related to any other drug (including a drug that is not a covered outpatient drug), not later than 6 months after the date of such overdose— (I) provide notice of such overdose to each provider that, during the period (to be established by the Secretary) preceding such overdose, prescribed opioids (or such other specified drug, if applicable) to such individual, to the extent that such data is available