Bill Text: NY A04054 | 2017-2018 | 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 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to health [A04054 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04054-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4054
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMOTAS, COOK, RIVERA, ZEBROWSKI, MONTESANO,
          HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McKEVITT  --  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.
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