STATE OF NEW YORK
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3293
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 20, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to expanding the
originating sites at which telehealth services may be delivered
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 amended by chapter 167 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 or dentist's offices located within the state of New
10 York; public, private and charter elementary and secondary schools,
11 school age child care programs, and child day care centers within the
12 state of New York; and, when a patient is receiving health care services
13 by means of remote patient monitoring, the patient's place of residence
14 located within the state of New York or other temporary location located
15 within or outside the state of New York.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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