Senate Bill S6760

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-S6760 (ACTIVE) - Details

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

2011-S6760 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2011-S6760 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S6760 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6760

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 19, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. FLANAGAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed 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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