Bill Text: NY A00336 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Provides that with the first opioid prescription of each year for use in a setting other than a general hospital or nursing home under article twenty-eight of this chapter or facility under article thirty-one of the mental hygiene law, or when a practitioner is prescribing a controlled substance to a patient under the care of hospice, the prescriber shall prescribe an opioid antagonist when any of the following risk factors are present: a history of substance abuse disorder; high dose or cumulative prescriptions that result in 90 morphine milligram equivalents or higher per day; concurrent use of opioids and benzodiazepine or nonbenzodiazepine sedative hypnotics.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-12-30 - signed chap.803 [A00336 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A00336-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Provides that with the first opioid prescription of each year for use in a setting other than a general hospital or nursing home under article twenty-eight of this chapter or facility under article thirty-one of the mental hygiene law, or when a practitioner is prescribing a controlled substance to a patient under the care of hospice, the prescriber shall prescribe an opioid antagonist when any of the following risk factors are present: a history of substance abuse disorder; high dose or cumulative prescriptions that result in 90 morphine milligram equivalents or higher per day; concurrent use of opioids and benzodiazepine or nonbenzodiazepine sedative hypnotics.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-12-30 - signed chap.803 [A00336 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A00336-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 336 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, DINOWITZ, OTIS, CYMBROWITZ, AUBRY, L. ROSENTHAL, FERNANDEZ, STERN, HEVESI, HUNTER, JOYNER, PERRY, RAMOS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prescribing an opioid antagonist with a patient's first opioid prescription in a given year The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3309 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 7 to read as follows: 3 7. With the first prescription to a particular patient of an opioid of 4 each year for use in a setting other than a general hospital or nursing 5 home under article twenty-eight of this chapter or facility under arti- 6 cle thirty-one of the mental hygiene law, or when a practitioner is 7 prescribing a controlled substance to a patient under the care of 8 hospice as defined by section four thousand two of this chapter, the 9 prescriber shall prescribe an opioid antagonist when any of the follow- 10 ing risk factors are present: (a) a history of substance use disorder; 11 (b) high dose or cumulative prescriptions that result in over fifty 12 morphine milligram equivalents per day; (c) concurrent use of opioids 13 and benzodiazepine or nonbenzodiazepine sedative hypnotics. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 15 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 16 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 17 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 18 completed by the commissioner of health on or before such effective 19 date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03417-01-1