Bill Text: NY S05522 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Relates to the provision of off-site health care services; directs the commissioner of health to allow diagnostic and treatment centers and outpatient clinics of general hospitals to provide off-site services to existing patients who are chronically ill and temporarily or permanently homebound at their residence or a long term care facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S05522 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S05522-Amended.html
Bill Title: Relates to the provision of off-site health care services; directs the commissioner of health to allow diagnostic and treatment centers and outpatient clinics of general hospitals to provide off-site services to existing patients who are chronically ill and temporarily or permanently homebound at their residence or a long term care facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S05522 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S05522-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5522--A Cal. No. 1070 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E May 14, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HANNON, LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the provision of off-site health care services THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 11 to read as follows: 3 11. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE, OR ANY RULE OR 4 REGULATION, UNDER THIS ARTICLE TO THE CONTRARY, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL 5 ALLOW DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT CENTERS AND OUTPATIENT CLINICS OF GENERAL 6 HOSPITALS TO PROVIDE OFF-SITE SERVICES TO EXISTING PATIENTS WHO ARE 7 CHRONICALLY ILL AND TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY HOMEBOUND AT THEIR RESI- 8 DENCE, INCLUDING THOSE RESIDING IN LONG TERM CARE SETTINGS THAT ARE 9 DEFINED AS OR CONSIDERED THE INDIVIDUAL'S RESIDENCE. SUCH PATIENTS SHALL 10 BE IN NEED OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AVAILABLE AT THE DIAGNOSTIC AND 11 TREATMENT CENTER OR GENERAL HOSPITAL OUTPATIENT CLINIC, BUT, DUE TO THE 12 INDIVIDUAL'S MEDICAL CONDITION, BE UNABLE TO RECEIVE ON-SITE SERVICES AT 13 THE DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT CENTER OR GENERAL HOSPITAL OUTPATIENT CLIN- 14 IC. SERVICES PROVIDED OFF-SITE UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE LIMITED 15 TO THOSE SERVICES OTHERWISE AUTHORIZED TO BE PROVIDED ON-SITE BY THE 16 DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT CENTER OR OUTPATIENT CLINIC. 17 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 18 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11060-11-5