STATE OF NEW YORK
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7214
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 28, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
to establishing the high need primary care medical personnel demon-
stration program; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon
expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "high need primary care medical personnel demonstration program
3 act".
4 § 2. Article 2 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
5 title 7 to read as follows:
6 TITLE VII
7 HIGH NEED PRIMARY CARE MEDICAL
8 PERSONNEL DEMONSTRATION
9 PROGRAM
10 Section 267. High need primary care medical personnel demonstration
11 program.
12 § 267. High need primary care medical personnel demonstration program.
13 1. The department shall establish a high need primary care medical
14 personnel demonstration program. The commissioner shall designate six
15 locations at which such program shall be conducted.
16 (a) The locations of the demonstration program shall be selected based
17 upon the following:
18 (1) the amount of primary care medical services provided at the
19 location applying for designation;
20 (2) the percentage of patients receiving care through medical assist-
21 ance;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (3) the capacity of the applicant location to host physicians licensed
2 pursuant to section sixty-five hundred twenty-five of the education law;
3 and
4 (4) the benefit to the appropriate high need community in the
5 provision of primary care medical personnel.
6 (b) The locations of the demonstration program shall be as follows:
7 (1) two shall be in rural areas, as defined in subdivision one of
8 section twenty-nine hundred fifty-one of this chapter;
9 (2) two shall be in cities having a population of between one hundred
10 fifty thousand and one million; and
11 (3) two shall be in cities having a population of one million or more.
12 2. On or before April first, two thousand seventeen, the commissioner
13 shall submit a report to the governor, the temporary president of the
14 senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate
15 and the minority leader of the assembly. Such report shall include, but
16 not be limited to, a statistical analysis of the changes in health
17 results for patients at demonstration program locations, and the hospi-
18 talization rates, chronic illnesses and vital statistics thereof.
19 3. All demonstration program locations shall utilize physicians
20 licensed pursuant to section sixty-five hundred twenty-five of the
21 education law.
22 § 3. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 6525 of the education law, as
23 added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, paragraph 1 of subdivision 1
24 as amended by chapter 133 of the laws of 1982, are amended to read as
25 follows:
26 1. Eligibility: The following persons shall be eligible for a limited
27 permit:
28 (1) A person who fulfills all requirements for a license as a physi-
29 cian except those relating to the examination and citizenship or perma-
30 nent residence in the United States;
31 (2) A foreign physician who holds a standard certificate from the
32 educational council for foreign medical graduates or who has passed an
33 examination satisfactory to the state board for medicine and in accord-
34 ance with the commissioner's regulations; [or]
35 (3) A foreign physician or a foreign intern who is in this country on
36 a non-immigration visa for the continuation of medical study, pursuant
37 to the exchange student program of the United States department of
38 state[.]; or
39 (4) A person who graduates from a regents, Liaison Committee on
40 Medical Education or American Osteopathic Association accredited medical
41 program, or a person who graduates from any other medical program who
42 has passed two requisite steps or parts of the United States Medical
43 Licensing Examination or National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners
44 examination, where such a person practices at a medical facility or
45 practice designated by the department of health pursuant to section two
46 hundred sixty-seven of the public health law.
47 2. Limit of practice. A permittee shall be authorized to practice
48 medicine only under the supervision of a licensed physician and only in
49 a public, voluntary[,] or proprietary hospital, or pursuant to section
50 two hundred sixty-seven of the public health law.
51 § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
52 have become a law, and shall expire and be deemed repealed July 1, 2017.
