Bill Text: NY S07432 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to develop a patient wellness bill of rights to inform patients of those services provided under wellness care and when such services become diagnostic and treatment services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-01 - referred to health [S07432 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S07432-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7432 IN SENATE April 29, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- 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 establishment of a patient wellness bill of rights 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 article 17 2 to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 17 4 PATIENT WELLNESS BILL OF RIGHTS 5 Section 1701. Patient wellness bill of rights. 6 1702. Duty to inform. 7 § 1701. Patient wellness bill of rights. The commissioner shall devel- 8 op and make available to accident and health insurers, providers and 9 patients a patient wellness bill of rights in order to make patients 10 aware of the free wellness screenings and services available pursuant to 11 the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L.111-148), as 12 amended by the federal Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 13 2010 (P.L. 111-152), and to help patients avoid unexpected bills for 14 non-covered services. Such bill of rights shall include, but not be 15 limited to: 16 1. a statement describing a patient's right to certain services and 17 screenings without cost sharing, and a list of such services as well as 18 the overall purpose and nature of a wellness visit; and 19 2. a statement describing the difference between a wellness visit and 20 a physical or diagnostic visit, including notice that a wellness visit 21 may become a diagnostic visit requiring cost sharing under certain 22 circumstances accompanied by examples of situations in which a patient 23 should inquire as to whether a screening or diagnostic service is 24 covered as a free wellness visit service or whether the patient would be 25 required to pay for the service. 26 § 1702. Duty to inform. Patients receiving free wellness screenings or 27 services in an outpatient department of a general hospital, or in a 28 diagnostic and treatment center licensed under article twenty-eight of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15141-02-6S. 7432 2 1 this chapter, or from a physician, physician assistant or nurse practi- 2 tioner providing such services shall be informed prior to the perform- 3 ance of any services that would change the nature of the visit from a 4 free wellness visit to a screening or diagnostic service that would not 5 be included within the free wellness visit and could result in cost- 6 sharing or other reimbursement from the patient. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 8 have become a law.