Bill Text: NY S02948 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to establish an opioid addiction treatment and hospital diversion demonstration program.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 22-5)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-09 - referred to health [S02948 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S02948-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2948
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 25, 2013
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       Introduced by Sens. HANNON, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered print-
         ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to establishing an
         opioid  addiction  treatment  and  hospital  diversion   demonstration
         program
         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  3309-b to read as follows:
    3    S  3309-B.  OPIOID  ADDICTION  TREATMENT AND HOSPITAL DIVERSION DEMON-
    4  STRATION PROGRAM. 1. THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH  THE  OFFICE
    5  OF  ALCOHOLISM  AND  SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES, SHALL, WITHIN THE AMOUNTS
    6  APPROPRIATED THEREFOR,  ESTABLISH  AN  OPIOID  ADDICTION  TREATMENT  AND
    7  HOSPITAL  DIVERSION  DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. THIS PROGRAM SHALL PROVIDE A
    8  NEW MODEL OF DETOXIFICATION AND TRANSITIONAL  SERVICES  FOR  INDIVIDUALS
    9  SEEKING  TO  RECOVER FROM OPIOID ADDICTION, THEREBY REDUCING RELIANCE ON
   10  EMERGENCY ROOM SERVICES. THE PROGRAM SHALL PROVIDE FOR THE TREATMENT  OF
   11  PRESCRIPTION  PAIN  MEDICATION ADDICTION ON AN OUTPATIENT OR NON-MEDICAL
   12  RESIDENTIAL SHORT-TERM STAY BASIS. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL  ESTABLISH  UP
   13  TO  SIX  DEMONSTRATIONS  THROUGHOUT  THE  STATE, AND AT MINIMUM A DEMON-
   14  STRATION SHALL BE ESTABLISHED IN EACH OF THE  FOLLOWING  AREAS:  WESTERN
   15  NEW YORK, CENTRAL NEW YORK, STATEN ISLAND, BROOKLYN AND LONG ISLAND.
   16    2.  NOT LATER THAN TWO YEARS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION,
   17  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROVIDE THE GOVERNOR, THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT  OF
   18  THE  SENATE, THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE STAND-
   19  ING COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND THE CHAIR OF THE ASSEMBLY  HEALTH  COMMITTEE
   20  WITH  A WRITTEN EVALUATION OF THE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. SUCH EVALUATION
   21  SHALL ADDRESS THE OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS TREATMENT  MODEL  AS  IT
   22  RELATES  TO  PATIENTS,  THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY, HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
   23  AND HEALTH CARE PAYORS, AND SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE  LIMITED  TO,  THE
   24  EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PROGRAM IN PROVIDING ACCESS TO SERVICES, THE IMPACT
   25  OF  THESE SERVICES, THE ASSOCIATED COSTS SAVINGS, AND WHETHER THE EXPAN-
   26  SION OF THIS OR SIMILAR MODELS ARE RECOMMENDED.
   27    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02651-01-3