Senate Bill S5436

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires health care professional undergraduate, graduate and continuing education in chronic pain management and treatment

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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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2017-S5436 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4806
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 28-F §2899-k, amd §2807-s, Pub Health L; amd §6507, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S2723
2013-2014: S2361, A9250
2015-2016: S1939, A1671
2019-2020: A608
2021-2022: A1335
2023-2024: A348

2017-S5436 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes standards to advance the management and treatment of chronic pain; incorporates continuing education programs for health care professionals who treat patients that have chronic pain.

2017-S5436 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5436 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5436
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 28, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
   to chronic pain management
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Legislative  intent:  The  legislature  hereby finds that
 medical treatment of chronic pain in this state needs to  be  reexamined
 to  enhance  the  ability  to  assess such condition, increase access to
 appropriate care to treat and mitigate chronic  pain,  and  improve  the
 quality  of  life  for  those  afflicted  with this condition. Currently
 chronic pain is most often treated by primary  care  providers  who  may
 have  little  training in the assessment and proper treatment of complex
 chronic pain conditions. This, in turn,  has  led,  in  certain  circum-
 stances,  to  patients seeing multiple health care providers and experi-
 encing multiple and repeated diagnostic tests, that lead  to  inadequate
 or  unproven  surgeries, prescription of unneeded or strong pain medica-
 tions, with its consequential heightened possibility to lead to the long
 term addiction to such strong pain medications, and the  performance  of
 procedures or treatment regimens that are not able to successfully treat
 or mitigate such chronic pain.
   Further, the current practice of the repeated utilization of different
 health  practitioners, tests and unnecessary medical procedures to treat
 such chronic pain is resulting in  higher  health  care  costs.    These
 increased  costs come from unnecessary visits to health care practition-
 ers, more and longer hospital stays, performing unnecessary surgeries or
 other medical procedures, and unnecessary  prescription  of  costly  and
 dangerous  drugs. This inefficient use of valuable health care resources
 is contributing to the rapidly increasing cost of providing health care.
 With the continuing aging of New York's general population,  this  trend
 may  only  continue  to  grow.  Further,  the  consequences  to patients
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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