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Assembly Bill A4054

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Directs the department of health to update physician profiles for electronic access at least once every ninety days with respect to proceedings for medical misconduct and actions for medical malpractice

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2017-A4054 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2995-a, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A7052
2015-2016: A4997
2019-2020: A1023

2017-A4054 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of health to update physician profiles for electronic access at least once every ninety days with respect to proceedings for medical misconduct and actions for medical malpractice.

2017-A4054 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4054
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMOTAS, COOK, RIVERA, ZEBROWSKI, MONTESANO,
   HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McKEVITT  --  read  once  and
   referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to electronic access
   to physician profiles

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 9 of section 2995-a of the public health law,
 as amended by section 3 of part A of chapter 57 of the laws of 2015,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   9.  The department shall, in addition to hard copy physician profiles,
 provide for electronic access  to  and  copying  of  physician  profiles
 developed  pursuant to this section through the system commonly known as
 the Internet. [The department shall update a physician's online  profile
 within thirty days of receipt of a completed physician profile survey or
 any  change in profile information.] SUCH ELECTRONIC ACCESS TO PHYSICIAN
 PROFILES SHALL BE UPDATED AT LEAST ONCE EVERY  NINETY  DAYS  TO  REFLECT
 CHANGES TO SUCH PROFILES WITH RESPECT TO PROCEEDINGS FOR MEDICAL MISCON-
 DUCT  AND ACTIONS FOR MEDICAL MALPRACTICE. SUCH PHYSICIAN PROFILES SHALL
 BE MADE AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH AND OTHER SUCH LANGUAGES THAT  THE  COMMIS-
 SIONER DEEMS APPROPRIATE.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04536-01-7

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