Bill Text: NY S05653 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of health analysis of data in the prescription monitoring program registry.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-04 - referred to health [S05653 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5653

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 10, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. METZGER -- 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  the  prescription
          monitoring program registry being used to investigate prescribers

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3343-a of the public  health  law,
     2  as  added  by section 2 of part A of chapter 447 of the laws of 2012, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    7. Department analysis of data. (a) The department shall  periodically
     5  analyze  data  contained in the prescription monitoring program registry
     6  to identify information that indicates that a violation of law or breach
     7  of professional standards may have occurred and, as  warranted,  provide
     8  any  relevant  information  to  appropriate  entities as permitted under
     9  section thirty-three hundred seventy-one of this article. The department
    10  shall keep a record of the  information  provided,  including,  but  not
    11  limited  to,  the  specific information provided and the agency to which
    12  such information was provided, including  the  name  and  title  of  the
    13  person  to  whom  such  information was provided and an attestation from
    14  such person that he or she has authority to receive such information.
    15    (b) The department shall identify  and  investigate  prescribers  with
    16  statistically  high  prescribing  patterns. If the department reasonably
    17  believes after such investigation  that  a  violation  of  the  law  has
    18  occurred  the  department shall provide such information to the attorney
    19  general.
    20    § 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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