Relates to the provision of off-site health care services; directs the commissioner of health to allow diagnostic and treatment centers and outpatient clinics of general hospitals to provide off-site services to existing patients who are chronically ill and temporarily or permanently homebound at their residence or a long term care facility.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5522--C
Cal. No. 1143
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 14, 2015
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Introduced by Sens. HANNON, LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --
reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
retaining its place in the order of third reading -- again amended and
ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
-- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate
Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to
first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and
ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the provision of
off-site health care services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
3 11. Notwithstanding any provision of this article, or any rule or
4 regulation under this article to the contrary, the commissioner shall
5 allow outpatient clinics of general hospitals and diagnostic and treat-
6 ment centers to provide off-site primary care services that are:
7 (a) primary care services ordinarily provided to the patient on-site
8 at the outpatient clinic or diagnostic and treatment center and are not
9 home care services defined in subdivision one of section thirty-six
10 hundred two of this chapter or the professional services enumerated in
11 subdivision two of such section;
12 (b) provided by a primary care professional to a patient with a pre-
13 existing clinical relationship with the outpatient clinic or diagnosis
14 and treatment center, or with the health care professional providing the
15 service; and
16 (c) provided to a patient who is unable to leave his or her residence
17 to receive services at the outpatient clinic or diagnostic and treatment
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 center without unreasonable difficulty due to circumstances, including
2 but not limited to, clinical impairment.
3 Nothing in this subdivision shall preclude a federally qualified
4 health center from providing off-site services in accordance with
5 department regulations.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
7 it shall have become a law, provided that any state regulations or guid-
8 ance which may be issued for the implementation of this act shall be
9 developed in consultation with representatives of outpatient clinics of
10 general hospitals, diagnostic and treatment centers, home care services
11 agencies, and statewide associations representing such providers.