Bill Text: NY S07568 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits payments from the New York state medical indemnity fund for adult day programs, sheltered workshops and care coordination services for persons who sustained birth-related neurological injuries as the result of medical malpractice.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S07568 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07568-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7568

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to care for adult
          malpractice victims injured at birth

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

     1    Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "care for
     2  adult malpractice victims injured at birth act".
     3    § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 2999-h of  the  public  health  law,  as
     4  amended  by  chapter  112  of  the  laws  of 2023, is amended to read as
     5  follows:
     6    3. "Qualifying health care costs" means the future medical,  hospital,
     7  surgical, nursing, dental, rehabilitation, habilitation, respite, custo-
     8  dial,   adult  day  programs,  sheltered  workshops,  care  coordination
     9  services, durable medical equipment, home modifications, assistive tech-
    10  nology, vehicle modifications, transportation  for  purposes  of  health
    11  care  related  appointments,  prescription  and non-prescription medica-
    12  tions, and other  health  care  costs  actually  incurred  for  services
    13  rendered  to  and  supplies  utilized by qualified plaintiffs, which are
    14  necessary to meet their health care needs, as determined by their treat-
    15  ing physicians, physician assistants,  or  nurse  practitioners  and  as
    16  otherwise defined by the commissioner in regulation.
    17    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any
    18  person enrolled in the New York state  medical  indemnity  fund  on  and
    19  after such date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11770-01-3