Bill Text: NY A09718 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires hospitals and residential health care facilities to implement a pressure ulcer prevention program; directs the commissioner of health to report on current reimbursement options to reduce pressure ulcers; provides for the establishment of a pressure ulcer prevention center of excellence.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-04 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A09718 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9718

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospi-
          tals and residential health care facilities to  implement  a  pressure
          ulcer prevention program

          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 15 to read as follows:
     3    15. (a) The commissioner shall require each general hospital and resi-
     4  dential  health  care facility to develop and implement a pressure ulcer
     5  prevention program.
     6    (b) Within one hundred twenty days  of  the  effective  date  of  this
     7  subdivision, the commissioner shall evaluate current reimbursement poli-
     8  cies  in  regard to pressure ulcer prevention programs including durable
     9  medical equipment, education and training. Within six months after  such
    10  effective  date,  the commissioner shall develop a menu of reimbursement
    11  alternatives that would reduce the incidence of pressure  ulcers  across
    12  all health care settings.
    13    (c)  By October first, two thousand twenty-four the commissioner shall
    14  establish a pressure ulcer prevention center of  excellence  within  the
    15  department.  Such center shall consult with experts across the world and
    16  seek private philanthropic support.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14439-01-4