Directs the department of health to update physician profiles for electronic access at least once every ninety days with respect to proceedings for medical misconduct and actions for medical malpractice.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1023
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS, COOK, RIVERA, ZEBROWSKI, MONTESANO --
read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to electronic access
to physician profiles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 2995-a of the public health law,
2 as amended by section 3 of part A of chapter 57 of the laws of 2015, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 9. The department shall, in addition to hard copy physician profiles,
5 provide for electronic access to and copying of physician profiles
6 developed pursuant to this section through the system commonly known as
7 the Internet. [The department shall update a physician's online profile
8 within thirty days of receipt of a completed physician profile survey or
9 any change in profile information.] Such electronic access to physician
10 profiles shall be updated at least once every ninety days to reflect
11 changes to such profiles with respect to proceedings for medical miscon-
12 duct and actions for medical malpractice. Such physician profiles shall
13 be made available in English and other such languages that the commis-
14 sioner deems appropriate.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01397-01-9
