Bill Text: NY A00645 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the department of health to develop and implement a residency program initiative to service medically underserved areas; makes an appropriation therefor.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A00645 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A00645-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 645 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER, BARCLAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to developing and implementing a residency program initiative to service medically underserved areas; and making an appropriation therefor The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 2807-mm to read as follows: 3 § 2807-mm. Resident program initiative to service medically under- 4 served areas. 1. The department shall develop and implement a residency 5 program initiative for physicians who agree to work in medically under- 6 served areas in New York state as designated by the commissioner as 7 having a shortage of physicians in certain areas. This initiative will 8 fund fifty residency positions. 9 2. The physician applicant must: 10 (a) complete a residency program initiative application, as developed 11 by the department; and 12 (b) have entered the national resident matching program and have 13 failed to match; and 14 (c) be a resident of New York state; and 15 (d) have graduated from a New York state accredited medical school and 16 have passed the United States medical licensing examination steps 1 and 17 2; or 18 (e) be certified by the education commission for foreign medical grad- 19 uates. 20 3. New York state accredited residency programs must complete a resi- 21 dency program participation application, as developed by the department. 22 4. In order for a New York state accredited residency program to be 23 approved it must be either a teaching hospital or have teaching hospital 24 oversight and be licensed by the department. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02608-01-3A. 645 2 1 5. Residency positions funded under this program shall be awarded to 2 interested hospitals on a competitive basis pursuant to a request for 3 proposal or request for application process. 4 6. The department will match physician applicants with approved 5 medical residency programs. 6 7. Upon acceptance to an approved medical residency program the physi- 7 cian applicant must sign a contract with the state whereby the physician 8 applicant agrees to work in New York state in a medically underserved 9 area at the completion of his or her residency for a minimum of five 10 years. The location must be approved by the department and must accept 11 medicaid and medicare. The physician applicant shall be responsible to 12 repay the department for the cost of their residency should they either 13 fail to complete the residency or the subsequent service requirement. 14 The commissioner shall be given the power to waive or modify the repay- 15 ment requirement in cases where there is a compelling need or hardship. 16 § 2. The sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000), or so much thereof 17 as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department of health 18 from any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the credit 19 of the state purposes account not otherwise appropriated for the 20 purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act. Such sum shall be 21 payable on the audit and warrant of the state comptroller on vouchers 22 certified or approved by the commissioner of health, or his duly desig- 23 nated representative in the manner provided by law. 24 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 25 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 26 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 27 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 28 completed on or before such effective date.