Bill Text: NY A01023 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of health to update physician profiles for electronic access at least once every ninety days with respect to proceedings for medical misconduct and actions for medical malpractice.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A01023 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01023-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1023
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. SIMOTAS, COOK, RIVERA, ZEBROWSKI, MONTESANO --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to electronic  access
          to physician profiles
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 2995-a of the public  health  law,
     2  as  amended by section 3 of part A of chapter 57 of the laws of 2015, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    9. The department shall, in addition to hard copy physician  profiles,
     5  provide  for  electronic  access  to  and  copying of physician profiles
     6  developed pursuant to this section through the system commonly known  as
     7  the  Internet. [The department shall update a physician's online profile
     8  within thirty days of receipt of a completed physician profile survey or
     9  any change in profile information.] Such electronic access to  physician
    10  profiles  shall  be  updated  at least once every ninety days to reflect
    11  changes to such profiles with respect to proceedings for medical miscon-
    12  duct and actions for medical malpractice. Such physician profiles  shall
    13  be  made  available in English and other such languages that the commis-
    14  sioner deems appropriate.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01397-01-9