A00645 Summary:

BILL NOA00645
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORHunter
 
COSPNSRBarclay
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §2807-mm, Pub Health L
 
Directs the department of health to develop and implement a residency program initiative to service medically underserved areas; makes an appropriation therefor.
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A00645 Actions:

BILL NOA00645
 
01/11/2023referred to health
01/03/2024referred to health
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A00645 Committee Votes:

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A00645 Floor Votes:

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A00645 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           645
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. HUNTER, BARCLAY -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  developing  and
          implementing  a  residency  program  initiative  to  service medically
          underserved areas; and making an appropriation therefor

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  2807-mm to read as follows:
     3    § 2807-mm. Resident program initiative  to  service  medically  under-
     4  served  areas. 1. The department shall develop and implement a residency
     5  program initiative for physicians who agree to work in medically  under-
     6  served  areas  in  New  York  state as designated by the commissioner as
     7  having a shortage of physicians in certain areas. This  initiative  will
     8  fund fifty residency positions.
     9    2. The physician applicant must:
    10    (a)  complete a residency program initiative application, as developed
    11  by the department; and
    12    (b) have entered the  national  resident  matching  program  and  have
    13  failed to match; and
    14    (c) be a resident of New York state; and
    15    (d) have graduated from a New York state accredited medical school and
    16  have  passed the United States medical licensing examination steps 1 and
    17  2; or
    18    (e) be certified by the education commission for foreign medical grad-
    19  uates.
    20    3. New York state accredited residency programs must complete a  resi-
    21  dency program participation application, as developed by the department.
    22    4.  In  order  for a New York state accredited residency program to be
    23  approved it must be either a teaching hospital or have teaching hospital
    24  oversight and be licensed by the department.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02608-01-3

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     1    5. Residency positions funded under this program shall be  awarded  to
     2  interested  hospitals  on  a competitive basis pursuant to a request for
     3  proposal or request for application process.
     4    6.  The  department  will  match  physician  applicants  with approved
     5  medical residency programs.
     6    7. Upon acceptance to an approved medical residency program the physi-
     7  cian applicant must sign a contract with the state whereby the physician
     8  applicant agrees to work in New York state in  a  medically  underserved
     9  area  at  the  completion  of his or her residency for a minimum of five
    10  years.  The location must be approved by the department and must  accept
    11  medicaid  and medicare.  The physician applicant shall be responsible to
    12  repay the department for the cost of their residency should they  either
    13  fail  to  complete  the residency or the subsequent service requirement.
    14  The commissioner shall be given the power to waive or modify the  repay-
    15  ment requirement in cases where there is a compelling need or hardship.
    16    §  2. The sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000), or so much thereof
    17  as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department of  health
    18  from  any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the credit
    19  of the  state  purposes  account  not  otherwise  appropriated  for  the
    20  purposes  of  carrying out the provisions of this act. Such sum shall be
    21  payable on the audit and warrant of the state  comptroller  on  vouchers
    22  certified  or approved by the commissioner of health, or his duly desig-
    23  nated representative in the manner provided by law.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    25  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    26  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    27  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    28  completed on or before such effective date.
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