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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         4285--A
            Cal. No. 276
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 8, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens.  SERINO,  YOUNG,  HANNON -- 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, passed by Senate and delivered to
          the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to 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 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  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,  any type of adult care facility licensed under title two of arti-
    11  cle seven of the social services law, and, when a patient  is  receiving
    12  health  care  services  by  means  of  remote  patient  monitoring,  the
    13  patient's place of residence located within the state  of  New  York  or
    14  other  temporary  location  located  within  or outside the state of New
    15  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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