Senate Bill S5400

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Includes nurse practitioners as a provider of services for purposes of collaborative drug therapy management and makes the authorization for pharmacists to perform such management permanent

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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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2013-S5400 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6801-a, Ed L; amd §5, Chap 21 of 2011
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S280
2017-2018: S4296
2021-2022: S4689
2023-2024: S4043

2013-S5400 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes nurse practioners as a provider of services for purposes of collaborative drug therapy management and makes the authorization for pharmacists to perform such management permanent.

2013-S5400 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S5400 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  5400

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 16, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to including nurse  prac-
  titioners as a provider of services for purposes of collaborative drug
  therapy management; and to amend chapter 21 of the laws of 2011 amend-
  ing  the  education law relating to authorizing pharmacists to perform
  collaborative drug  therapy  management  with  physicians  in  certain
  settings,  in  relation to making the authorization for pharmacists to
  perform collaborative drug therapy management permanent

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

  Section 1. Section 6801-a of the education law, as added by chapter 21
of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  S   6801-a.   Collaborative  drug  therapy  management  [demonstration
program]. 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
  a. "Collaborative drug therapy management" shall mean the  performance
of  services  by  a  pharmacist  relating  to the review, evaluation and
management of drug therapy to a patient,  who  is  being  treated  by  a
physician OR NURSE PRACTITIONER for a specific disease or disease state,
in  accordance  with  a written agreement or protocol with a voluntarily
participating physician OR NURSE PRACTITIONER and in accordance with the
policies, procedures, and protocols of the facility. Such  agreement  or
protocol  as  entered  into by the physician OR NURSE PRACTITIONER and a
pharmacist, may include, and shall be limited to:
  (i) adjusting or managing a drug regimen of a patient, pursuant  to  a
patient  specific written order or protocol made by the patient's physi-
cian OR NURSE PRACTITIONER, which may include adjusting  drug  strength,
frequency  of  administration  or route of administration. Adjusting the
drug regimen shall not include substituting  or  selecting  a  different
drug  which  differs  from  that  initially  prescribed by the patient's

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11076-01-3
              

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