Bill Text: NY A05603 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that with the first opioid prescription of each year for use in a setting other than a general hospital or nursing home under article twenty-eight of this chapter or facility under article thirty-one of the mental hygiene law, or when a practitioner is prescribing a controlled substance to a patient under the care of hospice, the prescriber shall prescribe an opioid antagonist when any of the following risk factors are present: a history of substance abuse disorder; high dose or cumulative prescriptions that result in over 50 morphine milligram equivalents per day; concurrent use of opioids and benzodiazepine or nonbenzodiazepine sedative hypnotics.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A05603 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05603-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5603--B

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 13, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BRAUNSTEIN, DINOWITZ, OTIS, CYMBROWITZ, AUBRY,
          RAIA, JAFFEE, L. ROSENTHAL, FERNANDEZ -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of
          A.  McDONOUGH  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted  to said committee -- reported and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to prescribing an
          opioid antagonist with a patient's  first  opioid  prescription  in  a
          given year

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 3309 of the public health law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. With the first prescription to a particular patient of an opioid of
     4  each  year for use in a setting other than a general hospital or nursing
     5  home under article twenty-eight of this chapter or facility under  arti-
     6  cle  thirty-one  of  the  mental  hygiene law, or when a practitioner is
     7  prescribing a controlled substance  to  a  patient  under  the  care  of
     8  hospice  as  defined  by  section four thousand two of this chapter, the
     9  prescriber shall prescribe an opioid antagonist when any of the  follow-
    10  ing  risk  factors are present: (a) a history of substance use disorder;
    11  (b) high dose or cumulative prescriptions  that  result  in  over  fifty
    12  morphine  milligram  equivalents  per day; (c) concurrent use of opioids
    13  and benzodiazepine or nonbenzodiazepine sedative hypnotics.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    16  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    17  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    18  completed by the commissioner of health  on  or  before  such  effective
    19  date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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