A08080 Summary:

BILL NOA08080A
 
SAME ASNo same as
 
SPONSORPerry
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd S6530, Ed L; add S18-b, Pub Health L
 
Requires a health care provider or facility which has determined to cease to do business or which is transferring its ownership, at least sixty days prior to such action, notify the commissioner of health of its intent and shall provide a copy of its plan for transfer of patient records to another provider, facility or practitioner.
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A08080 Actions:

BILL NOA08080A
 
06/18/2013referred to health
01/08/2014referred to health
06/05/2014amend and recommit to health
06/05/2014print number 8080a
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A08080 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A08080 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         8080--A
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 18, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation

          to the transfer of patient medical records in certain circumstances
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  40  of section 6530 of the education law, as
     2  added by chapter 606 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows:
     3    40. Failing to provide access by qualified persons to patient informa-
     4  tion in accordance with the standards set forth  in  [section]  sections
     5  seventeen  and  eighteen of the public health law, such section eighteen
     6  as added by chapter [497] four  hundred  ninety-seven  of  the  laws  of
     7  [1986] nineteen hundred eighty-six;
     8    §  2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 18-b to
     9  read as follows:

    10    § 18-b. Requirement for transfer of information. 1.  Definitions.  For
    11  the  purposes of this section the following terms shall have the follow-
    12  ing meanings:
    13    (a) "Cease to do business in this state" shall mean any case  where  a
    14  health care provider who has engaged in an on-going practice or business
    15  within  this  state  as a health care provider, ceases to engage in such
    16  business, provided however, that this term shall not  include  a  health
    17  care  practitioner  whose practice is merged, consolidated, combined, or
    18  acquired by another health care provider and  he  or  she  continues  to
    19  provide  services  including  medical  care,  diagnosis  or treatment to
    20  patients as an employee, contractor, or owner  of  the  merged,  consol-

    21  idated, combined, or acquiring health care provider.
    22    (b)  "Failure  to  provide  access  to  medical information or medical
    23  records" shall mean any  circumstance  where  a  health  care  provider,
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01923-18-4

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     1  health  care  facility  or  health  care practitioner, as such terms are
     2  defined in section eighteen of this  title,  such  section  eighteen  as
     3  added  by  chapter  four  hundred  ninety-seven  of the laws of nineteen
     4  hundred  eighty-six,  that  is  planning  to cease to do business in the

     5  state and fails to act in accordance to the requirements  prescribed  by
     6  the  commissioner  for  transfer  of patient information as such term is
     7  defined in such section  eighteen  of  this  title  or  patient  medical
     8  records as described in section seventeen of this title.
     9    (c)  "Health  care provider," "health care facility," and "health care
    10  practitioner" shall have the same meaning as in section eighteen of this
    11  title, as added by chapter four hundred  ninety-seven  of  the  laws  of
    12  nineteen hundred eighty-six.
    13    (d)  "Patient  information"  shall have the same meaning as in section
    14  eighteen of this title, as added by chapter four hundred ninety-seven of
    15  the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-six.

    16    (e) "Patient medical records" shall mean the records that, upon  writ-
    17  ten  request  by a competent patient, parent or guardian of an infant, a
    18  guardian appointed pursuant to article eighty-one of the mental  hygiene
    19  law,  or  conservator of a conservatee, are required to be provided to a
    20  physician or hospital pursuant to section seventeen of this title.
    21    2. A health care provider which has in its possession patient informa-
    22  tion or patient medical records and which has determined to  permanently
    23  cease  to  do  business  or practice in this state shall, at least sixty
    24  days prior to such action, notify the  commissioner  of  its  intent  to
    25  cease operations in this state, in the form and manner prescribed by the

    26  commissioner,  and  shall  provide  a  copy of its plan, in the form and
    27  manner prescribed by the commissioner, for transfer of patient  informa-
    28  tion  or  patient medical records to another provider, facility, practi-
    29  tioner or patient, as requested by the patient or required  pursuant  to
    30  law.    The  sixty  day requirement for notification to the commissioner
    31  shall be waived if a health care provider  determines  to  cease  to  do
    32  business  or  practice  in  this state as a result of illness, injury or
    33  death.
    34    3.  Within ten days of being notified by a health care provider of the
    35  provider's determination to cease to do business  or  practice  in  this
    36  state, the commissioner shall prescribe the requirements for transfer of

    37  patient  information  and  patient  medical  records, provided that such
    38  requirements shall include (a) a maximum period of time, not  to  exceed
    39  sixty  days  from  the  date  that the health care provider, health care
    40  facility or health care practitioner ceases to practice to  do  business
    41  in  this  state,  for the completion of the transfer, and (b) a plan for
    42  notifying patients of the closure or cessation of doing business in  New
    43  York and informing such patients of their right to request their patient
    44  information  or  patient  medical  records  be  sent  to the health care
    45  provider, health care facility or health care practitioner of his or her
    46  choice or returned to themselves.  If the determination to cease  to  do

    47  business  or  practice  in  this  state was made as a result of illness,
    48  injury or death the health care provider shall have an additional  sixty
    49  days to comply with the provisions of this section.
    50    4.   Nothing in this section shall authorize the disclosure of patient
    51  information or patient medical records that are prohibited from  disclo-
    52  sure pursuant to law.
    53    5.  If the commissioner shall determine that the failure of any health
    54  care provider, health care facility,  or  health  care  practitioner  to
    55  adhere  to  the  terms of the plan that has been approved by the commis-
    56  sioner for the  transfer  of  patient  information  or  patient  medical

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     1  records  and such failure shall have caused or may cause a threat to the
     2  health of an individual patient who is the subject of  such  information
     3  or  medical  records  because  more  than six months has elapsed since a
     4  prior  laboratory  test,  the  results  of  which  are  contained in the
     5  patient's information or medical records, the commissioner may order new
     6  laboratory tests to be performed by a practitioner chosen or approved by
     7  the commissioner. In  order  to  expedite  such  laboratory  tests,  the
     8  commissioner  may  order  payment  for  such  laboratory  tests from any
     9  account under the control of the department, and shall assess  any  such
    10  health  care provider, health care facility, or health care practitioner

    11  who failed to release the patient's  information  or  patient's  medical
    12  records in accordance with the plan approved by the commissioner for the
    13  expenses  associated  with  the  cost  of  such  laboratory tests.   For
    14  purposes of this subdivision, the term "laboratory tests" shall include,
    15  but not be limited to, tests and examinations administered  in  clinical
    16  laboratories  or  blood banks as those terms are defined in section five
    17  hundred seventy-one of this chapter.
    18    6. If the commissioner shall determine that a  health  care  provider,
    19  health  care  facility  or  health  care practitioner has willfully, and
    20  without good cause, failed to adhere to the terms of the plan  that  has

    21  been  approved  by the commissioner for the transfer of patient informa-
    22  tion or patient medical records, the commissioner may assess  a  penalty
    23  not to exceed five hundred dollars for each of the first twenty failures
    24  and two hundred fifty dollars for each additional failure thereafter but
    25  any  provider,  facility or practitioner shall not be assessed a penalty
    26  under this subdivision  of  more  than  thirty  thousand  dollars.    An
    27  aggrieved  provider, facility or practitioner may appeal such assessment
    28  to the medical record access review committees designated by the commis-
    29  sioner pursuant to subdivision four of section eighteen of  this  title,
    30  such  section  as added by chapter four hundred ninety-seven of the laws

    31  of nineteen hundred eighty-six.
    32    7. The provisions of this section shall not affect any rights afforded
    33  pursuant to section seventeen or section eighteen of  this  title,  such
    34  section  eighteen  as  added by chapter four hundred ninety-seven of the
    35  laws of nineteen hundred eighty-six.
    36    8. Any assessment made pursuant to this section shall be  in  addition
    37  to any other assessment or penalty that is authorized by law.
    38    9.  Nothing  in this section shall affect or extend the period of time
    39  that a health care provider is required to retain  a  patient's  medical
    40  information and medical records.
    41    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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