Requires hospitals and residential health care facilities to implement a pressure ulcer prevention program; directs the commissioner of health to report on current reimbursement options to reduce pressure ulcers; provides for the establishment of a pressure ulcer prevention center of excellence.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9718--B
IN ASSEMBLY
April 3, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again
reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospi-
tals and residential health care facilities to implement a pressure
ulcer prevention program
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 15 to read as follows:
3 15. (a) The commissioner shall require each general hospital and resi-
4 dential health care facility to develop and implement a pressure ulcer
5 prevention program.
6 (b) Within one hundred twenty days of the effective date of this
7 subdivision, the commissioner shall evaluate current reimbursement poli-
8 cies in regard to pressure ulcer prevention programs including durable
9 medical equipment and education and training. Within six months after
10 the effective date of this subdivision, the commissioner shall report on
11 the current reimbursement options available to reduce the incidence of
12 pressure ulcers across all health care settings.
13 (c) By April first, two thousand twenty-five the commissioner shall
14 establish a pressure ulcer prevention center of excellence within the
15 department.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14439-04-4
