Bill Text: NY S06760 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6760 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires providers of mammography services to inform patients of irregular results on their breast exams.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-26 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S06760 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S06760-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6760
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 19, 2012
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       Introduced  by Sen. FLANAGAN -- 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  the  duty  of
         mammography services to notify patients in certain circumstances
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
    2  2404-c to read as follows:
    3    S  2404-C. BREAST CANCER; DUTY OF PROVIDERS OF MAMMOGRAPHY SERVICES TO
    4  NOTIFY AND INFORM. 1. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL DEVELOP A STANDARD  WRITTEN
    5  NOTIFICATION  IN PLAIN NON-TECHNICAL LANGUAGE FOR PATIENTS, WHO RECEIVED
    6  MAMMOGRAPHY SERVICES THAT DEMONSTRATE THE PATIENT HAS HETEROGENEOUSLY OR
    7  EXTREMELY DENSE BREAST TISSUE BASED ON THE BREAST IMAGING REPORTING  AND
    8  DATA  SYSTEM  ESTABLISHED  BY  THE  AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY, WHICH
    9  SHALL EXPLAIN THAT:
   10    (A) THE PATIENT'S MAMMOGRAPHY RESULTS DEMONSTRATE THAT THE PATIENT HAS
   11  DENSE BREAST TISSUE WHICH MAY  REDUCE  THE  SENSITIVITY  OF  MAMMOGRAPHY
   12  SCREENING AND INTERFERE WITH THE DETECTION OF ABNORMALITIES;
   13    (B)  THE  NOTIFICATION  HAS ALSO BEEN SENT TO THE PATIENT'S PHYSICIAN;
   14  AND
   15    (C) THE NOTIFICATION IS PROVIDED TO ENCOURAGE THE PATIENT  TO  DISCUSS
   16  WITH THE PATIENT'S PHYSICIAN THE OPTION OF ADDITIONAL METHODS OF SCREEN-
   17  ING FOR BREAST CANCER DEPENDING ON THE PATIENT'S RISK FACTORS.
   18    2.  EVERY  PROVIDER  OF  MAMMOGRAPHY  SERVICES SHALL, IF A PATIENT HAS
   19  HETEROGENEOUSLY DENSE OR EXTREMELY DENSE  BREAST  TISSUE,  INCLUDE  SUCH
   20  NOTIFICATION  IN  ANY  MAMMOGRAPHY  REPORT SENT, PURSUANT TO THE FEDERAL
   21  MAMMOGRAPHY QUALITY STANDARDS ACT, TO  THE  PATIENT  AND  THE  PATIENT'S
   22  PHYSICIAN.
   23    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   24  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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