Includes public, private and charter elementary and secondary schools, school age child care programs and child day care centers within the state of New York, assisted living facilities, adult homes, continuing care retirement communities and other senior living residences within the state of New York in the definition of originating site.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7903
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 29, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. RUSSELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including certain
facilities in the definition of originating site
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2999-cc of the public health law,
2 as added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. "Originating site" means a site at which a patient is located at
5 the time health care services are delivered to him or her by means of
6 telehealth. Originating sites shall be limited to facilities licensed
7 under articles twenty-eight and forty of this chapter, facilities as
8 defined in subdivision six of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law,
9 private physician's offices located within the state of New York,
10 public, private and charter elementary and secondary schools, school age
11 child care programs and child day care centers within the state of New
12 York, assisted living facilities, adult homes, continuing care retire-
13 ment communities and other senior living residences within the state of
14 New York, and, when a patient is receiving health care services by means
15 of remote patient monitoring, the patient's place of residence located
16 within the state of New York or other temporary location located within
17 or outside the state of New York.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
19 manner as chapter 6 of the laws of 2015 takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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