NY State Senate Bill 2015-S5733

Senate Bill S5733

Signed By Governor

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to including occupational and physical therapists within the definition of telehealth providers

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A7488 - Signed by Governor

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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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Nov 20, 2015	signed chap.454
Nov 10, 2015	delivered to governor
Jun 15, 2015	returned to assembly passed senate substituted for s5733
Jun 15, 2015	substituted by a7488 ordered to third reading cal.1586 committee discharged and committed to rules
Jun 01, 2015	referred to health

Votes

- Jun 15, 2015 - Floor Vote
  A7488
  
  62
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 15, 2015
      
      aye (62)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Amedore
      
      Avella
      
      Bonacic
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      Croci
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Diaz
      
      Dilan
      
      Espaillat
      
      Farley
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Hamilton
      
      Hannon
      
      Hassell-Thompson
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Latimer
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Martins
      
      Montgomery
      
      Murphy
      
      Nozzolio
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Panepinto
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Perkins
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Sampson
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Skelos
      
      Squadron
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Valesky
      
      Venditto
      
      Young
      
      excused (1)
      
      Libous
  Jun 15, 2015 - Rules Committee Vote
  S5733
  
  23
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  2
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 15, 2015
      
      aye (23)
      
      Bonacic
      
      Breslin
      
      Carlucci
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Espaillat
      
      Farley
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Hannon
      
      Hassell-Thompson
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Larkin
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Nozzolio
      
      Parker
      
      Seward
      
      Skelos
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
      
      aye wr (2)
      
      Montgomery
      
      Perkins

2015-S5733 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A7488
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §2999-cc, Pub Health L

2015-S5733 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes occupational and physical therapists within the definition of telehealth providers.

2015-S5733 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S5733

TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public health law, in relation to including
physical therapists and occupational therapists as telehealth
providers

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

The purpose of this bill is to include physical therapists and
occupational therapists among the health care professionals who may
deliver health care services using electronic information and
communication technologies.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends subdivision 2 of section 2999-cc of the Public Health
Law to add physical therapists and occupational therapists to the list
of health care professionals who may provide services using telehealth
systems (physician, physician assistant, dentist, nurse practitioner,
nurse, podiatrist, optometrist, psychologist, social worker, speech
language pathologist, midwife, certified diabetes educator, certified
asthma educator, certified genetic counselor).

Section 2 provides that this act shall take effect on the same date

and in the same manner as Chapter 550 of the Laws of 2014 takes
effect.

JUSTIFICATION:

Telehealth is the application of evaluation, consultation, preventive
and therapeutic services delivered through telecommunication and
information technologies, allowing greater access to care. Physical
and occupational therapy practitioners can effectively use telehealth
to provide services from a location that is physically distant from
the patient, to benefit the patient where and when the patient needs
it most.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as
Chapter 550 of the Laws of 2014.

2015-S5733 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  5733

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 1, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- 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 including physical
  therapists and occupational therapists as telehealth providers

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

  Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 2999-cc of the public health law,
as added by chapter 6 of the  laws  of  2015,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  2. "Telehealth provider" means:
  (a) a physician licensed pursuant to article one hundred thirty-one of
the education law;
  (b)  a  physician  assistant  licensed pursuant to article one hundred
thirty-one-B of the education law;
  (c) a dentist licensed pursuant to article one hundred thirty-three of
the education law;
  (d) a nurse practitioner licensed  pursuant  to  article  one  hundred
thirty-nine of the education law;
  (e)  a  registered professional nurse licensed pursuant to article one
hundred thirty-nine of the education law only when such nurse is receiv-
ing patient-specific health information or medical  data  at  a  distant
site by means of remote patient monitoring;
  (f) a podiatrist licensed pursuant to article one hundred forty-one of
the education law;
  (g)  an  optometrist  licensed  pursuant to article one hundred forty-
three of the education law;
  (h) a psychologist licensed pursuant to  article  one  hundred  fifty-
three of the education law;
  (i)  a  social  worker licensed pursuant to article one hundred fifty-
four of the education law;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10951-01-5

S. 5733                             2

  (j) a speech language pathologist or audiologist licensed pursuant  to
article one hundred fifty-nine of the education law;
  (k)  a  midwife  licensed pursuant to article one hundred forty of the
education law;
  (l) A PHYSICAL THERAPIST LICENSED  PURSUANT  TO  ARTICLE  ONE  HUNDRED
THIRTY-SIX OF THE EDUCATION LAW;
  (M) AN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST LICENSED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED
FIFTY-SIX OF THE EDUCATION LAW;
  (N)  a  person who is certified as a diabetes educator by the National
Certification Board for Diabetes  Educators,  or  a  successor  national
certification  board,  or  provided by such a professional who is affil-
iated with a program certified by the American Diabetes Association, the
American Association of Diabetes Educators, the Indian Health  Services,
or any other national accreditation organization approved by the federal
centers for medicare and medicaid services;
  [(m)]  (O)  a  person  who  is  certified as an asthma educator by the
National Asthma Educator Certification Board, or  a  successor  national
certification board;
  [(n)]  (P)  a  person  who  is certified as a genetic counselor by the
American Board of Genetic Counseling, or a  successor  national  certif-
ication board;
  [(o)]  (Q) a hospital as defined in article twenty-eight of this chap-
ter;
  [(p)] (R) a home care services agency as defined in article thirty-six
of this chapter;
  [(q)] (S) a hospice as defined in article forty of this chapter; and
  [(r)] (T) any other provider as determined by the commissioner  pursu-
ant to regulation.
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
manner as chapter 550 of the laws of 2014 takes effect.

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