Bill Text: NY S07765 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the distribution of lymphedema information to patients at high risk of developing lymphedema and lists which patients are considered high risk.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-19 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8819B [S07765 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07765-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7765--B
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 21, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  the  distribution
          of information to patients at high risk of developing lymphedema
          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  2803-v to read as follows:
     3    §  2803-v. Lymphedema information distribution. 1. For the purposes of
     4  this section, the term "lymphedema" shall mean an accumulation of  fluid
     5  in  the interstitial tissue that causes swelling, most often in the arms
     6  and/or legs, and occasionally in other  parts  of  the  body,  from  any
     7  cause.
     8    2.  The  commissioner shall design an informational packet about lymp-
     9  hedema and shall require that every  general  hospital  distribute  such
    10  packet  to all patients at high risk of developing lymphedema.  Patients
    11  deemed high risk shall include:
    12    (a) patients who experience any significant injury to soft tissue that
    13  could reasonably be expected, using sound medical judgment, as a  result
    14  of severity and nature thereof, to compromise or cause to be ineffective
    15  the drainage of the lymphatic system;
    16    (b)   patients   who  experience  recurrent  or  persistent  bacterial
    17  infections that could reasonably be expected, using sound medical  judg-
    18  ment, as a result of severity and nature thereof, to compromise or cause
    19  to be ineffective the drainage of the lymphatic system; or
    20    (c)  patients  who  have  had corrective surgical procedures performed
    21  that may have interfered with the lymph drainage by severing local lymp-
    22  hatics in a manner that may jeopardize reconstitution  and  recovery  of
    23  lymph drainage.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    25  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13592-08-8