Bill Text: NY S04182 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that dentists' offices shall be originating sites for the purposes of telehealth delivery of services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-08-13 - SIGNED CHAP.167 [S04182 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04182-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4182--A
           Cal. No. 394
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 5, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- reported favora-
         bly from said committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered
         to a 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
         dentist's offices as originating  sites  for  purposes  of  telehealth
         delivery of services
         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  added  by  chapter  6  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  and,  when a patient is receiving health care services by means of
   11  remote patient monitoring, the  patient's  place  of  residence  located
   12  within  the state of New York or other temporary location located within
   13  or outside the state of New York.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
   15  manner as section 2 of chapter 6 of the laws of 2015 takes effect.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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