Bill Text: NY A09718 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 9718

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Bill Title: Requires hospitals and residential health care facilities to implement a pressure ulcer prevention program; directs the commissioner of health to report on current reimbursement options to reduce pressure ulcers; provides for the establishment of a pressure ulcer prevention center of excellence.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-04 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A09718 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09718-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9718--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PAULIN, WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  requiring  hospi-
          tals  and  residential  health care facilities to implement a pressure
          ulcer prevention program

          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 15 to read as follows:
     3    15. (a) The commissioner shall require each general hospital and resi-
     4  dential health care facility to develop and implement a  pressure  ulcer
     5  prevention program.
     6    (b)  Within  one  hundred  twenty  days  of the effective date of this
     7  subdivision, the commissioner shall evaluate current reimbursement poli-
     8  cies in regard to pressure ulcer prevention programs  including  durable
     9  medical  equipment,  education and training. Within six months after the
    10  effective date of this subdivision, the  commissioner  shall  develop  a
    11  menu  of  reimbursement  alternatives that would reduce the incidence of
    12  pressure ulcers across all health care settings.
    13    (c) By October first, two thousand twenty-four the commissioner  shall
    14  establish  a  pressure  ulcer prevention center of excellence within the
    15  department.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14439-02-4