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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         3926--A
            Cal. No. 477
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 27, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens.  HANNON, FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --
          reported  favorably  from  said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, ordered to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,

          retaining its place in the order of third reading
 
        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to patient notice of
          the provision of observation services
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  2805-w to read as follows:
     3    § 2805-w. Patient notice of observation  services.  1.  Every  general
     4  hospital shall provide patients who are placed into observation services
     5  by  such general hospital with an oral and written notice within twenty-
     6  four hours of such placement that the patient is  not  admitted  to  the
     7  hospital  and  is under observation status. Such written notice shall be

     8  signed by the patient or the patient's legal representative to  acknowl-
     9  edge  receipt  and  shall  include, but not be limited to, the following
    10  information:
    11    (a) a statement that observation status may affect the patient's Medi-
    12  care, Medicaid and/or private insurance coverage for the current  hospi-
    13  tal  services,  including medications and other pharmaceutical supplies,
    14  as well as coverage for any subsequent discharge to  a  skilled  nursing
    15  facility or home and community based care; and
    16    (b)  that  the  patient  should  contact  his or her insurance plan to
    17  better understand  the  implications  of  being  placed  in  observation
    18  status.
    19    2.  The  commissioner shall develop and make available guidance on the

    20  notice as described in this section.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, except that subdivision 1
    22  of section 2805-w of the public health law, as added by section  one  of
    23  this  act,  shall  take effect on the ninetieth day after this act shall
    24  have become a law.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05275-06-3