Bill Text: NY A08414 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires notification on the department of health's website that all physician information may not be all-inclusive or up-to-date; requires an active link to the website maintained by the unified court system containing information on active and disposed cases in the local and state courts in the state.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-08-01 - signed chap.280 [A08414 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A08414-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8414
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 15, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, GOTTFRIED, GUNTHER, GALEF, AUBRY, REILLY,
         ZEBROWSKI, N. RIVERA, SPANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McENENY,
         SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
       AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to notification that
         all physician information on the department of  health's  website  may
         not be all-inclusive or up-to-date
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 15 of section 2995-a of the public health  law,
    2  as  added  by  chapter  542  of  the laws of 2000, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    15. (A) All physician data disseminated shall  include  the  following
    5  [statement]  STATEMENTS:  "THE DATA COLLECTED BY THE DEPARTMENT IS ACCU-
    6  RATE TO THE BEST OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DEPARTMENT, BASED ON THE INFOR-
    7  MATION SUPPLIED BY THE PHYSICIAN WHO IS THE SUBJECT OF THE DATA.   WHILE
    8  THE  DEPARTMENT UTILIZES A VARIETY OF SOURCES OF INFORMATION IN CHECKING
    9  THE ACCURACY OF THE DATA REPORTED, WE CANNOT BE SURE  THAT  ALL  OF  THE
   10  INFORMATION  ON  THIS  WEBSITE  IS  RIGHT,  COMPLETE, OR UP-TO-DATE, AND
   11  CANNOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION THAT IS WRONG OR HAS BEEN LEFT
   12  OUT. CONSUMERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CONSULT  OTHER  SOURCES  TO  VERIFY  OR
   13  OBTAIN  ADDITIONAL  INFORMATION  ABOUT  A  PHYSICIAN,  INCLUDING ACTIONS
   14  AGAINST A PHYSICIAN." THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ENSURE THAT THE  FULL  TEXT
   15  OF  THE STATEMENTS APPEAR ON EACH WEB PAGE OF THE PHYSICIAN PROFILE IN A
   16  MANNER THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE THE USER OF THE SITE TO CLICK ON A SEPARATE
   17  LINK IN ORDER TO VIEW THE STATEMENTS.
   18    (B) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE ON THE PHYSICIAN PROFILES  AN  ACTIVE
   19  LINK  TO  THE  WEBSITE MAINTAINED BY THE UNIFIED COURT SYSTEM CONTAINING
   20  INFORMATION ON ACTIVE AND DISPOSED CASES IN THE LOCAL AND  STATE  COURTS
   21  IN THE STATE.
   22    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   23  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11951-01-1