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Assembly Bill A5123

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires the department of health to provide on-line access of a person's Medicaid account information

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2009-A5123 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง363-a, Soc Serv L

2009-A5123 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of health to provide on-line access of a person's Medicaid account information to such person.

2009-A5123 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5123

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 10, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Health

AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to making an indi-
  vidual's Medicaid account information available through the use of the
  internet

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section  363-a  of  the social services law is amended by
adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
  5. THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SHALL ENSURE THAT THE ACCOUNT  INFORMATION
OF  EVERY  INDIVIDUAL  WHO  IS A RECIPIENT OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE THROUGH
MEDICAID IS AVAILABLE FOR ON-LINE VIEWING BY SUCH INDIVIDUAL THROUGH THE
USE OF THE INTERNET. THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SHALL TAKE WHATEVER  MEAS-
URES  NECESSARY TO SAFEGUARD THE PRIVACY OF THE MEDICAL RECORDS OF THESE
INDIVIDUALS.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law. Effective immediately  the  commissioner  of
the  department  of  health may take any action necessary for the timely
implementation of this act on its effective date.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07361-01-9

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