Permits payments from the New York state medical indemnity fund for adult day programs, sheltered workshops and care coordination services for persons who sustained birth-related neurological injuries as the result of medical malpractice.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7823
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 15, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to care for adult
malpractice victims injured at birth
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "care for
2 adult malpractice victims injured at birth act".
3 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 2999-h of the public health law, as
4 amended by chapter 112 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as
5 follows:
6 3. "Qualifying health care costs" means the future medical, hospital,
7 surgical, nursing, dental, rehabilitation, habilitation, respite, custo-
8 dial, adult day programs, sheltered workshops, care coordination
9 services, durable medical equipment, home modifications, assistive tech-
10 nology, vehicle modifications, transportation for purposes of health
11 care related appointments, prescription and non-prescription medica-
12 tions, and other health care costs actually incurred for services
13 rendered to and supplies utilized by qualified plaintiffs, which are
14 necessary to meet their health care needs, as determined by their treat-
15 ing physicians, physician assistants, or nurse practitioners and as
16 otherwise defined by the commissioner in regulation.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any
18 person enrolled in the New York state medical indemnity fund on and
19 after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11770-01-3
