Amd SS6601, Ed L; amd SS230-d & 2995-d, Pub Health L; amd S3101, CPLR
Provides for the certification of and qualifications for dentists practicing oral and maxillofacial surgery; includes such dentist within provisions of law regulating office-based surgery; provides for a study of whether an oral and maxillofacial surgery profiling program should be established; and provides that in an oral and maxillofacial surgery malpractice action a physician may be called as an expert witness at trial.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3059--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 8, 2011
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Introduced by Sens. LIBOUS, KLEIN, MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher
Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in
accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to amending the defi-
nition of the scope of practice of dentistry to authorize certain
dentists who are qualified and certified to perform any procedure in
the oral and maxillofacial area; and to amend the public health law
and the civil practice law and rules, in relation to the discipline
and liability of dentists who are so qualified and certified
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 6601 of the education law, as amended by chapter
2 576 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 6601. Definition of practice of dentistry. 1. The practice of the
4 profession of dentistry is defined as diagnosing, treating, operating,
5 or prescribing for any disease, pain, injury, deformity, or physical
6 condition of the oral and maxillofacial area related to restoring and
7 maintaining dental health. The practice of dentistry includes the
8 prescribing and fabrication of dental prostheses and appliances. The
9 practice of dentistry may include performing physical evaluations in
10 conjunction with the provision of dental treatment.
11 2. Any oral and maxillofacial surgeon certified by the department in
12 accordance with qualifications established by the department may perform
13 additional surgical procedures involving the hard or soft tissues of the
14 oral and maxillofacial area. Qualifications to perform such additional
15 surgical procedures shall include being: (a) certified by the American
16 Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery or such equivalent national
17 certifying board or organization acceptable to the commissioner for such
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 additional surgical procedures, and (b) granted hospital privileges for
2 such surgical procedures by a general hospital licensed pursuant to
3 article twenty-eight of the public health law.
4 § 2. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 of section 230-d of the public
5 health law, as added by chapter 365 of the laws of 2007, is amended to
6 read as follows:
7 (i) "Licensee" shall mean an individual licensed or otherwise author-
8 ized under [articles] article one hundred thirty-one or one hundred
9 thirty-one-B of the education law, or certified pursuant to subdivision
10 two of section sixty-six hundred one of the education law.
11 § 3. Section 2995-d of the public health law is amended by adding a
12 new subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
13 4-a. In cooperation with the education department, study health care
14 practitioner data relating to oral and maxillofacial surgeons certified
15 pursuant to subdivision two of section sixty-six hundred one of the
16 education law. Such study shall include consideration of whether an
17 individual profiling program should be established and outline an appro-
18 priate method to develop and implement such a profiling program if such
19 a program is determined by the department to be in the public interest.
20 Such program and recommendations may be similar to the physician
21 profiles established pursuant to section twenty-nine hundred ninety-
22 five-a of this title. Such a proposed oral and maxillofacial surgeon
23 profiling program, if such a program is determined by the department to
24 be in the public interest, should be capable of presenting, in a cost
25 effective manner, relevant medical and treatment information in a format
26 that is easily understood by and made available to the general public.
27 Such study and its findings shall be submitted to the governor, the
28 temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the
29 minority leader of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly on
30 or before June first, two thousand sixteen;
31 § 4. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (d) of section 3101 of the civil prac-
32 tice law and rules is amended by adding a new subparagraph (iv) to read
33 as follows:
34 (iv) In an action for oral and maxillofacial surgery medical malprac-
35 tice for procedures performed pursuant to subdivision two of section
36 sixty-six hundred one of the education law, a physician may be called as
37 an expert witness at trial.
38 § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
39 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
40 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
41 necessary for the implementation of the provisions of this act on its
42 effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on
43 or before such effective date.
