Relates to the provision of off-site health care services; directs the commissioner of health to allow diagnostic and treatment centers and outpatient clinics of general hospitals to provide off-site services to existing patients who are chronically ill and temporarily or permanently homebound at their residence or at a long term care facility.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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Cal. No. 310
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 26, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health -- reported and referred to the Committee on Rules
-- Rules Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to the Committee on Rules -- ordered to a third reading -- passed by
Assembly and delivered to the Senate, recalled from the Senate, vote
reconsidered, bill amended, ordered reprinted, retaining its place on
the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the provision of
off-site health care services
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 11 to read as follows:
3 11. Notwithstanding any provision of this article, or any rule or
4 regulation under this article to the contrary, the commissioner shall
5 allow outpatient clinics of general hospitals and diagnostic and treat-
6 ment centers to provide off-site primary care services that are:
7 (a) primary care services ordinarily provided to patients on-site at
8 the outpatient clinic or diagnostic and treatment center and are not
9 home care services defined in subdivision one of section thirty-six
10 hundred two of this chapter or the professional services enumerated in
11 subdivision two of such section;
12 (b) provided by a primary care professional to a patient with a pre-
13 existing clinical relationship with the outpatient clinic or diagnosis
14 and treatment center, or with the health care professional providing the
15 service; and
16 (c) provided to a patient who is unable to leave his or her residence
17 to receive services at the outpatient clinic or diagnostic and treatment
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 center without unreasonable difficulty due to circumstances, including
2 but not limited to, clinical impairment.
3 Nothing in this subdivision shall preclude a federally qualified
4 health center from providing off-site services in accordance with
5 department regulations.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
7 it shall have become a law, provided: that effective immediately the
8 commissioner of health may make regulations and take other actions
9 necessary to implement this act on that date; and any state regulations
10 or guidance which may be issued for the implementation of this act shall
11 be developed in consultation with representatives of outpatient clinics
12 of general hospitals, diagnostic and treatment centers, home care
13 services agencies, and statewide associations representing such provid-
14 ers.
