Bill Text: NY S03293 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the delivery of telehealth services at any elementary or secondary school, or child care program or center within the state.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-08 - SUBSTITUTED BY A4703 [S03293 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03293-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3293
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 20, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- 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  expanding  the
          originating sites at which telehealth services may be delivered
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2999-cc of the public health  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  167 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. "Originating site" means a site at which a patient  is  located  at
     5  the  time  health  care services are delivered to him or her by means of
     6  telehealth. Originating sites shall be limited  to  facilities  licensed
     7  under  articles  twenty-eight  and  forty of this chapter, facilities as
     8  defined in subdivision six of section 1.03 of the  mental  hygiene  law,
     9  private physician's or dentist's offices located within the state of New
    10  York;  public,  private  and  charter  elementary and secondary schools,
    11  school age child care programs, and child day care  centers  within  the
    12  state of New York; and, when a patient is receiving health care services
    13  by  means of remote patient monitoring, the patient's place of residence
    14  located within the state of New York or other temporary location located
    15  within or outside the state of New York.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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