Bill Text: NY A02116 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Permits an authorized physician to direct that physical therapy care may be rendered by a certified physical therapist assistant.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-20)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-14 - substituted by s2718a [A02116 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02116-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2116--A
                                                                Cal. No. 577
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 15, 2015
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, BENEDETTO, SCHIMEL, McDONALD, COLTON,
          WEPRIN, RYAN, MAGNARELLI, ROSENTHAL, LIFTON, STIRPE, OTIS, CYMBROWITZ,
          JOHNS, BLANKENBUSH, LAVINE, CAHILL, BRABENEC, BUCHWALD, TITONE,  GOTT-
          FRIED,  MOYA,  CASTORINA,  LALOR,  MALLIOTAKIS,  SEPULVEDA,  HUNTER --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  ABBATE,  ABINANTI,  ARROYO,  BRENNAN,
          CROUCH,  DILAN,  DINOWITZ,  GOODELL, HEVESI, LAWRENCE, LOPEZ, LUPARDO,
          LUPINACCI, McDONOUGH, McKEVITT, McLAUGHLIN, MURRAY, RA, RAIA,  RIVERA,
          RUSSELL,  SALADINO,  TENNEY,  THIELE,  WALTER, WOERNER, WRIGHT -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Labor -- 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 workers' compensation law, in relation to physical
          therapy care provided through the workers' compensation system
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 of section 13-b of the work-
     2  ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 473 of the laws of 2000, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (d)  Upon  the  referral  which may be directive as to treatment of an
     5  authorized physician physical therapy care may be  rendered  by  a  duly
     6  licensed physical therapist or by a certified physical therapist assist-
     7  ant.    Where physical therapy care is rendered records of the patient's
     8  condition and progress, together with records of instruction for  treat-
     9  ment,  if  any, shall be maintained by the physical therapist and physi-
    10  cian.   Physical therapists must co-sign  physical  therapist  assistant
    11  treatment  notes.  Said  records shall be submitted to the chair on such
    12  forms and at such times as the chair may  require.    Supervision  of  a
    13  physical  therapist  assistant by a licensed physical therapist shall be
    14  on-site and the supervising physical therapist is  responsible  for  the
    15  physical  therapist assistant  services. The chair, in consultation with
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02937-04-6
        A. 2116--A                          2
     1  the board's medical director,  shall  review  physical  therapy  service
     2  codes  to  determine  the appropriateness of modifiers, if any, based on
     3  the  practitioner rendering the service and shall implement modifiers as
     4  appropriate.
     5    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law.