Bill Text: NY S06460 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires health care providers and practitioners to provide contact information for the NY Connects: Choices for Long Term Care program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-27 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S06460 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S06460-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6460
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 27, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen. VALESKY -- 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  requiring  health
         care  providers  and  practitioners to provide contact information for
         the NY Connects: Choices for Long Term Care 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  2997-e to read as follows:
    3    S 2997-E. PROVISION OF CONTACT INFORMATION RELATING TO LONG TERM CARE.
    4  WHENEVER A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER OR PRACTITIONER MAKES  A  RECOMMENDATION
    5  REGARDING THE NECESSITY OF LONG TERM CARE SERVICES OR A REFERRAL FOR THE
    6  RECEIPT  OF  LONG  TERM  CARE  SERVICES  TO  A  PATIENT,  THE PATIENT OR
    7  PATIENT'S DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE SHALL BE PROVIDED BY THE HEALTH CARE
    8  PROVIDER OR PRACTITIONER THE CONTACT INFORMATION FOR NY CONNECTS: CHOIC-
    9  ES FOR LONG TERM CARE, ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION  EIGHT  OF
   10  SECTION  TWO  HUNDRED  THREE  OF  THE ELDER LAW, THAT CORRESPONDS TO THE
   11  PATIENT'S COUNTY OF RESIDENCE OR PROSPECTIVE COUNTY OF  RESIDENCE  BASED
   12  ON THE PREFERENCE OF THE PATIENT.
   13    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
   14  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13593-02-4