Assembly Bill A9637

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires providers of mammography services to inform patients of irregular results on their breast exams

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A9637 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง2404-c, Pub Health L

2011-A9637 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires providers of mammography services to inform patients of irregular results on their breast exams.

2011-A9637 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9637

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 22, 2012
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health  law, in relation to the duty of
  mammography services to notify patients in certain circumstances

  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
2404-c to read as follows:
  S 2404-C. BREAST CANCER; DUTY OF PROVIDERS OF MAMMOGRAPHY SERVICES  TO
NOTIFY  AND INFORM. 1. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL DEVELOP A STANDARD WRITTEN
NOTIFICATION IN PLAIN NON-TECHNICAL LANGUAGE FOR PATIENTS, WHO  RECEIVED
MAMMOGRAPHY SERVICES THAT DEMONSTRATE THE PATIENT HAS HETEROGENEOUSLY OR
EXTREMELY  DENSE BREAST TISSUE BASED ON THE BREAST IMAGING REPORTING AND
DATA SYSTEM ESTABLISHED BY THE  AMERICAN  COLLEGE  OF  RADIOLOGY,  WHICH
SHALL EXPLAIN THAT:
  (A) THE PATIENT'S MAMMOGRAPHY RESULTS DEMONSTRATE THAT THE PATIENT HAS
DENSE  BREAST  TISSUE  WHICH  MAY  REDUCE THE SENSITIVITY OF MAMMOGRAPHY
SCREENING AND INTERFERE WITH THE DETECTION OF ABNORMALITIES;
  (B) THE NOTIFICATION HAS ALSO BEEN SENT TO  THE  PATIENT'S  PHYSICIAN;
AND
  (C)  THE  NOTIFICATION IS PROVIDED TO ENCOURAGE THE PATIENT TO DISCUSS
WITH THE PATIENT'S PHYSICIAN THE OPTION OF ADDITIONAL METHODS OF SCREEN-
ING FOR BREAST CANCER DEPENDING ON THE PATIENT'S RISK FACTORS.
  2. EVERY PROVIDER OF MAMMOGRAPHY SERVICES  SHALL,  IF  A  PATIENT  HAS
HETEROGENEOUSLY  DENSE  OR  EXTREMELY  DENSE BREAST TISSUE, INCLUDE SUCH
NOTIFICATION IN ANY MAMMOGRAPHY REPORT SENT,  PURSUANT  TO  THE  FEDERAL
MAMMOGRAPHY  QUALITY  STANDARDS  ACT,  TO  THE PATIENT AND THE PATIENT'S
PHYSICIAN.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15073-01-2

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