Bill Text: NY S04488 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for a premium reduction for physicians and licensed midwives who complete a risk management strategies course in obstetrics or midwifery.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-04 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO INSURANCE [S04488 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04488-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4488--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 24, 2015
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        Introduced by Sens. MURPHY, ESPAILLAT -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- recom-
          mitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with  Senate  Rule  6,
          sec.  8  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the insurance law, in relation
          to premium reduction for obstetric practitioners who complete  a  risk
          management strategies course
          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  2506-a to read as follows:
     3    §  2506-a.  Risk  management  strategies  in  obstetrics and midwifery
     4  courses. 1. In order to improve patient safety, birth  outcomes  and  to
     5  promote  informed  consultation  by  patients  with their physicians and
     6  licensed midwives during the prenatal through intrapartum and postpartum
     7  periods, the commissioner shall approve professional  education  courses
     8  for eligible physicians and licensed midwives as provided in subdivision
     9  four  of  this section that covers risk management strategies in obstet-
    10  rics and midwifery as described in subdivision two of this section. Such
    11  risk management strategies courses shall be subject to such standards as
    12  the commissioner may prescribe by regulation. In prescribing such  regu-
    13  lations,  the  commissioner  may  consult  with the American Congress of
    14  Obstetricians and Gynecologists, New York State Association of  Licensed
    15  Midwives  and  other health care organizations. An eligible physician or
    16  licensed midwife who successfully completes such risk management strate-
    17  gies course pursuant to this section shall  receive  continuing  medical
    18  education credit and a certificate of completion.
    19    2.   Courses on risk management strategies during the prenatal through
    20  intrapartum and postpartum periods shall promote evidence-based clinical
    21  guidelines and patient safety protocols  from  both  the  midwifery  and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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