Bill Text: NY S00182 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 182 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires hospitals to notify patients of a non-participating physician or health care provider providing treatment at a participating hospital.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S00182 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S00182-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          182
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to patient  notifica-
         tion  of services provided by non-participating providers at a partic-
         ipating hospital
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
    2  2805-u to read as follows:
    3    S 2805-U. NOTIFICATION OF NON-PARTICIPATING PROVIDERS PROVIDING TREAT-
    4  MENT AT A PARTICIPATING HOSPITAL. EVERY HOSPITAL SHALL  BE  REQUIRED  TO
    5  NOTIFY A PATIENT ADMITTED TO SUCH HOSPITAL IF A PHYSICIAN OR HEALTH CARE
    6  PROVIDER  PROVIDING  TREATMENT  TO  SUCH  PATIENT IS NOT A PARTICIPATING
    7  PROVIDER IN THE NETWORK OF ANY INSURER WHOSE PLANS OR POLICIES OF INSUR-
    8  ANCE ARE ACCEPTED BY SUCH HOSPITAL. THE NOTIFICATION  REQUIRED  BY  THIS
    9  SECTION  SHALL BE PRIOR TO SUCH PHYSICIAN OR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER TREAT-
   10  ING THE PATIENT.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   12  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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