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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7714--C
                                                                Cal. No. 310
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 26, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health -- reported and referred to the Committee on Rules
          -- Rules Committee discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended  and  recommitted to the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to the Committee on Rules -- ordered to a third reading --  passed  by
          Assembly  and  delivered to the Senate, recalled from the Senate, vote
          reconsidered, bill amended, ordered reprinted, retaining its place  on
          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 patients on-site at
     8  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.
                                                                   LBD11060-14-6
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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 effective immediately the
     8  commissioner of health may  make  regulations  and  take  other  actions
     9  necessary  to implement this act on that date; and any state regulations
    10  or guidance which may be issued for the implementation of this act shall
    11  be developed in consultation with representatives of outpatient  clinics
    12  of  general  hospitals,  diagnostic  and  treatment  centers,  home care
    13  services agencies, and statewide associations representing such  provid-
    14  ers.