Bill Text: NY A09318 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the authority of nurse practitioners and physician assistants to prescribe certain services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-18 - referred to health [A09318 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09318-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9318
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 18, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the social  services  law,  in
          relation to the authority of nurse practitioners and physician assist-
          ants to prescribe certain services
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 4, 5 and 14 of  section  3602  of  the  public
     2  health  law,  subdivisions 4 and 5 as amended by chapter 376 of the laws
     3  of 2015, subdivision 14 as added by chapter 622 of the laws of 1988, are
     4  amended to read as follows:
     5    4. "Home  health  aide  services"  means  simple  health  care  tasks,
     6  personal hygiene services, housekeeping tasks essential to the patient's
     7  health  and  other  related  supportive services. Such services shall be
     8  prescribed by a physician, nurse practitioner, or  physician  assistant,
     9  acting  within  his or her lawful scope of practice under title eight of
    10  the education law, in accordance  with  a  plan  of  treatment  for  the
    11  patient  and shall be under the supervision of a registered professional
    12  nurse from a certified home health agency or, when appropriate,  from  a
    13  provider  of a long term home health care program and of the appropriate
    14  professional therapist from  such  agency  or  provider  when  the  aide
    15  carries  out  simple  procedures  as an extension of physical, speech or
    16  occupational therapy. [Such services may also be prescribed  or  ordered
    17  by  a  nurse practitioner to the extent authorized by law and consistent
    18  with subdivision three of section six thousand nine hundred two  of  the
    19  education law and not prohibited by federal law or regulation.]
    20    5.  "Personal  care  services"  means services to assist with personal
    21  hygiene,  dressing,  feeding  and  household  tasks  essential  to   the
    22  patient's  health.  Such  services  shall  be prescribed by a physician,
    23  nurse practitioner, or physician assistant, acting  within  his  or  her
    24  lawful  scope  of  practice  under  title eight of the education law, in
    25  accordance with a plan of home care supervised by a  registered  profes-
    26  sional  nurse.  [Such  services  may  also be prescribed or ordered by a
    27  nurse practitioner to the extent authorized by law and  consistent  with

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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