Bill Text: NY S00182 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | 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 ________________________________________________________________________ 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. LBD01886-01-1