Bill Text: NY S06846 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Modifies the definition of telehealth provider to include any health care provider who possesses the requisite license, certification, registration, authorization or credentialing to provide a health care service in New York state and determines that it is clinically appropriate to deliver such health care service via telehealth.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-24 - referred to health [S06846 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06846-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6846--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 19, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. RIVERA, KRUEGER -- 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, in relation to modifying the
          definition of telehealth provider

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (y) of subdivision 2 of section 2999-cc of the
     2  public health law, as amended by section 3 of part F of  chapter  57  of
     3  the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (y)  any [other provider as determined by the commissioner pursuant to
     5  regulation or, in consultation with the commissioner, by the commission-
     6  er of the office of mental health, the commissioner  of  the  office  of
     7  addiction  services  and supports, or the commissioner of the office for
     8  people with developmental disabilities pursuant  to  regulation]  health
     9  care provider who:
    10    (i)  possesses  the  requisite  license,  certification, registration,
    11  authorization or credentialing to provide a health care service  in  New
    12  York state; and
    13    (ii) reasonably determines that it is clinically appropriate to deliv-
    14  er such health care service via telehealth.
    15    § 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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