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                                   5975
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 4, 2021
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 Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
   to  establishing  the  high need primary care medical personnel demon-
   stration program; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon
   expiration thereof

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 the "high need primary  care  medical  personnel  demonstration  program
 act".
   §  2.  Article  2  of the public health law is amended by adding a new
 title 8 to read as follows:
                                TITLE VIII
                      HIGH NEED PRIMARY CARE MEDICAL
                          PERSONNEL DEMONSTRATION
                                  PROGRAM
 SECTION 269. HIGH NEED  PRIMARY  CARE  MEDICAL  PERSONNEL  DEMONSTRATION
                PROGRAM.
   § 269. HIGH NEED PRIMARY CARE MEDICAL PERSONNEL DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.
 1.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  ESTABLISH  A  HIGH NEED PRIMARY CARE MEDICAL
 PERSONNEL DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. THE COMMISSIONER  SHALL  DESIGNATE  SIX
 LOCATIONS AT WHICH SUCH PROGRAM SHALL BE CONDUCTED.
   (A) THE LOCATIONS OF THE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM SHALL BE SELECTED BASED
 UPON THE FOLLOWING:
   (1)  THE  AMOUNT  OF  PRIMARY  CARE  MEDICAL  SERVICES PROVIDED AT THE
 LOCATION APPLYING FOR DESIGNATION;
   (2) THE PERCENTAGE OF PATIENTS RECEIVING CARE THROUGH MEDICAL  ASSIST-
 ANCE;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (3) THE CAPACITY OF THE APPLICANT LOCATION TO HOST PHYSICIANS LICENSED
 PURSUANT TO SECTION SIXTY-FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE OF THE EDUCATION LAW;
 AND
   (4)  THE  BENEFIT  TO  THE  APPROPRIATE  HIGH  NEED  COMMUNITY  IN THE
 PROVISION OF PRIMARY CARE MEDICAL PERSONNEL.
   (B) THE LOCATIONS OF THE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM SHALL BE AS FOLLOWS:
   (1) TWO SHALL BE IN RURAL AREAS, AS  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF
 SECTION TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE OF THIS CHAPTER;
   (2)  TWO SHALL BE IN CITIES HAVING A POPULATION OF BETWEEN ONE HUNDRED
 FIFTY THOUSAND AND ONE MILLION; AND
   (3) TWO SHALL BE IN CITIES HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE.
   2. ON OR BEFORE APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-THREE,  THE  COMMIS-
 SIONER SHALL SUBMIT A REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR, THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF
 THE  SENATE,  THE  SPEAKER  OF  THE ASSEMBLY, THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE
 SENATE AND THE MINORITY  LEADER  OF  THE  ASSEMBLY.  SUCH  REPORT  SHALL
 INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CHANGES IN
 HEALTH  RESULTS FOR PATIENTS AT DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM LOCATIONS, AND THE
 HOSPITALIZATION RATES, CHRONIC ILLNESSES AND VITAL STATISTICS THEREOF.
   3.  ALL  DEMONSTRATION  PROGRAM  LOCATIONS  SHALL  UTILIZE  PHYSICIANS
 LICENSED  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  SIXTY-FIVE  HUNDRED  TWENTY-FIVE OF THE
 EDUCATION LAW.
   § 3. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 6525 of  the  education  law,  as
 added  by  chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, paragraph 1 of subdivision 1
 as amended by chapter 133 of the laws of 1982, are amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  Eligibility: The following persons shall be eligible for a limited
 permit:
   (1) A person who fulfills all requirements for a license as  a  physi-
 cian  except those relating to the examination and citizenship or perma-
 nent residence in the United States;
   (2) A foreign physician who holds  a  standard  certificate  from  the
 educational  council  for foreign medical graduates or who has passed an
 examination satisfactory to the state board for medicine and in  accord-
 ance with the commissioner's regulations; [or]
   (3)  A foreign physician or a foreign intern who is in this country on
 a non-immigration visa for the continuation of medical  study,  pursuant
 to  the  exchange  student  program  of  the United States department of
 state[.]; OR
   (4) A PERSON WHO  GRADUATES  FROM  A  REGENTS,  LIAISON  COMMITTEE  ON
 MEDICAL EDUCATION OR AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION ACCREDITED MEDICAL
 PROGRAM,  OR  A  PERSON WHO GRADUATES FROM ANY OTHER MEDICAL PROGRAM WHO
 HAS PASSED TWO REQUISITE STEPS OR PARTS OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  MEDICAL
 LICENSING EXAMINATION OR NATIONAL BOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL EXAMINERS
 EXAMINATION,  WHERE  SUCH  A  PERSON  PRACTICES AT A MEDICAL FACILITY OR
 PRACTICE DESIGNATED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PURSUANT TO SECTION  TWO
 HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
   2.  Limit  of  practice.  A  permittee shall be authorized to practice
 medicine only under the supervision of a licensed physician and only  in
 a  public,  voluntary[,] or proprietary hospital, OR PURSUANT TO SECTION
 TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law, and shall expire and be deemed repealed July 1, 2023.