New York Senate Bill 7526 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on April 19 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-04-19 - REFERRED TO HEALTH
Pending: Senate Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requires health care providers (i.e., an entity licensed/certified under certain articles of the public health law or the mental hygiene law, a health care practitioner licensed/registered/certified under title eight of the education law, or a provider of pharmaceutical products/services or durable medical equipment) to disclose errors in diagnosis, treatment or other services that the provider knows has caused substantial harm or significant risk of substantial harm; provides there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the provider knew of the error and the harm or risk of harm if, under the circumstances, the provider reasonably should have had knowledge thereof; provides such disclosure shall be made within a reasonable period of time and be reasonably understandable.

Requires health care providers (i.e., an entity licensed/certified under certain articles of the public health law or the mental hygiene law, a health care practitioner licensed/registered/certified under title eight of the education law, or a provider of pharmaceutical products/services or durable medical equipment) to disclose errors in diagnosis, treatment or other services that the provider knows has caused substantial harm or significant risk of substantial harm; provides there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the provider knew of the error and the harm or risk of harm if, under the circumstances, the provider reasonably should have had knowledge thereof; provides such disclosure shall be made within a reasonable period of time and be reasonably understandable.

Sen. Thomas Duane [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-04-19		REFERRED TO HEALTH

A01673 (Same As) 2010-06-16 - reported referred to rules

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S07526&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S07526&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#S07526