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Assembly Bill A5158

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires a clinical laboratory to calculate the glomerular filtration rate when testing creatinine levels for the diagnosis of kidney disease

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2009-A5158 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง576-d, Pub Health L

2009-A5158 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a clinical laboratory to calculate the glomerular filtration rate when testing creatinine levels for the diagnosis of kidney disease.

2009-A5158 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5158

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 10, 2009
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring a  clin-
  ical laboratory to calculate the glomerular filtration rate when test-
  ing creatinine levels for the diagnosis of kidney disease

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

  Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
576-d to read as follows:
  S  576-D.  CALCULATION OF GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE. WHERE A CLINICAL
LABORATORY LICENSED IN THIS  STATE  TESTS  A  SPECIMEN  TO  DETERMINE  A
PATIENT'S  SERUM  CREATININE LEVEL, AS ORDERED OR PRESCRIBED BY A HEALTH
CARE PROFESSIONAL AUTHORIZED TO MAKE SUCH AN ORDER OR PRESCRIPTION, SUCH
LABORATORY SHALL CALCULATE  THE  PATIENT'S  GLOMERULAR  FILTRATION  RATE
USING SUCH INFORMATION AS IS PROVIDED BY THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL OR
PATIENT, AS APPLICABLE. THE LABORATORY SHALL INCLUDE THE PATIENT'S GLOM-
ERULAR FILTRATION RATE WITH ITS REPORT TO THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL.
  S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04291-01-9

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