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Assembly Bill A6309

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires eye surgery patients to receive disclosure of and consent to provision of postoperative care pursuant to an agreement with another physician or optometrist

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2009-A6309 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 2-B §§290 & 291, Pub Health L; amd §6530, Ed L

2009-A6309 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires eye surgery patients to receive disclosure of and consent to the provision of postoperative care pursuant to an agreement with another physician or optometrist: provides that the failure to comply with such provisions shall constitute malpractice.

2009-A6309 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6309

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 2, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GORDON, HOOPER, PHEFFER, ZEBROWSKI, MORELLE,
  ROSENTHAL, STIRPE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  ALFANO,  BOYLAND,
  GIGLIO,  KOON,  McDONOUGH,  McENENY,  SPANO, TOWNS, WEISENBERG -- read
  once and referred to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
  to requiring patient disclosure of and consent to co-management agree-
  ments for postoperative eye surgery care

  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 "patient disclosure for eye surgery act".
  S 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new article  2-B  to
read as follows:
                                ARTICLE 2-B
                       PATIENT DISCLOSURE FOR EYE
                                 SURGERY
SECTION 290. DEFINITIONS.
        291. LIMITATIONS ON CO-MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS.
  S 290. DEFINITIONS. AS USED IN THIS ARTICLE:
  1. "OPERATING PHYSICIAN" MEANS A PHYSICIAN WHO PERFORMS EYE SURGERY.
  2.  "OPTOMETRIST" MEANS A PERSON WHO IS LICENSED TO PRACTICE OPTOMETRY
IN THIS STATE PURSUANT TO ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED FORTY-THREE OF THE  EDUCA-
TION LAW.
  3.  "PHYSICIAN" MEANS A PERSON WHO IS LICENSED TO PRACTICE MEDICINE IN
THIS STATE PURSUANT TO ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE OF  THE  EDUCATION
LAW.
  S 291. LIMITATIONS ON CO-MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS. 1. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE
PROVIDED  IN  THIS  SECTION,  AN OPERATING PHYSICIAN SHALL BE PHYSICALLY
AVAILABLE TO A PATIENT FOR POSTOPERATIVE CARE IN THE COMMUNITY IN  WHICH
THE  OPERATION WAS PERFORMED FOR AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED TWENTY HOURS AFTER
THE SURGERY IS COMPLETED. SUCH  OPERATING  PHYSICIAN  MAY  DELEGATE  THE
RESPONSIBILITY  FOR  THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED TWENTY HOURS OF POSTOPERATIVE
CARE FOR A PATIENT FOR WHOM THE PHYSICIAN PERFORMED EYE SURGERY IN  THIS
STATE  ONLY  BY  ENTERING  INTO  A  CO-MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT WITH ANOTHER

              

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