Bill Text: NY A07714 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relates to the provision of off-site health care services; directs the commissioner of health to allow diagnostic and treatment centers and outpatient clinics of general hospitals to provide off-site services to existing patients who are chronically ill and temporarily or permanently homebound at their residence or at a long term care facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-11-28 - signed chap.450 [A07714 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A07714-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relates to the provision of off-site health care services; directs the commissioner of health to allow diagnostic and treatment centers and outpatient clinics of general hospitals to provide off-site services to existing patients who are chronically ill and temporarily or permanently homebound at their residence or at a long term care facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-11-28 - signed chap.450 [A07714 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A07714-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7714 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y May 26, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the provision of offsite health care services THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 11 to read as follows: 3 11. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE 4 CONTRARY, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ALLOW DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT CENTERS 5 AND OUTPATIENT CLINICS OF GENERAL HOSPITALS TO PROVIDE OFFSITE SERVICES 6 TO EXISTING PATIENTS WHO ARE CHRONICALLY ILL AND TEMPORARILY OR PERMA- 7 NENTLY HOMEBOUND AT THEIR RESIDENCE, INCLUDING THOSE RESIDING IN LONG 8 TERM CARE SETTINGS THAT ARE DEFINED AS OR CONSIDERED THE INDIVIDUAL'S 9 RESIDENCE. SUCH PATIENTS SHALL BE IN NEED OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES 10 AVAILABLE AT THE DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT CENTER OR GENERAL HOSPITAL 11 OUTPATIENT CLINIC, BUT, DUE TO THE INDIVIDUAL'S MEDICAL CONDITION, BE 12 UNABLE TO RECEIVE ON-SITE SERVICES AT THE DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT 13 CENTER OR GENERAL HOSPITAL OUTPATIENT CLINIC. 14 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 15 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11060-03-5