Bill Text: NY S04583 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires nursing homes to provide potential residents with policy on granting physician privileges prior to executing agreement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-20 - signed chap.492 [S04583 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04583-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4583
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 15, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  prior  notice  of
          physician privileges in nursing home residency agreements
          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 2803-c of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph q to read as follows:
     3    q. A statement indicating the policy of  the  facility  regarding  the
     4  granting of physician privileges to residents.
     5    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01980-01-9
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