Senate Bill S5280

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to improper practices relating to staff membership or professional privileges of a physician and such physician's board certification

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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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2019-S5280 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5140
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2801-b & 4406-d, Pub Health L; amd §4803, Ins L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8979
2015-2016: A5650
2017-2018: S7357, A4914
2021-2022: S2116
2023-2024: S1727

2019-S5280 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to improper practices relating to staff membership or professional privileges of a physician and such physician's board certification.

2019-S5280 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S5280 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5280
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 23, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- 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 insurance law, in relation
   to improper practices relating to  staff  membership  or  professional
   privileges of a physician and board certification

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2801-b of the public  health  law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  605 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. It shall be an improper practice for the governing body of a hospi-
 tal to refuse to act upon an application for staff membership or profes-
 sional privileges or to deny or withhold from a  physician,  podiatrist,
 optometrist,  dentist  or  licensed  midwife staff membership or profes-
 sional privileges in a hospital, or to exclude  or  expel  a  physician,
 podiatrist,  optometrist, dentist or licensed midwife from staff member-
 ship in a hospital or curtail, terminate or diminish in any way a physi-
 cian's, podiatrist's, optometrist's,  dentist's  or  licensed  midwife's
 professional  privileges  in  a  hospital,  without  stating the reasons
 therefor, or if the reasons stated are unrelated to standards of patient
 care, patient welfare, the objectives of the institution or the  charac-
 ter or competency of the applicant. It shall be an improper practice for
 a  governing  body of a hospital to refuse to act upon an application or
 to deny or to withhold staff membership or professional privileges to  a
 podiatrist  based solely upon a practitioner's category of licensure. IT
 SHALL BE AN IMPROPER PRACTICE FOR A GOVERNING  BODY  OF  A  HOSPITAL  TO
 REFUSE  TO  ACT  UPON  AN  APPLICATION  OR  TO DENY OR TO WITHHOLD STAFF
 MEMBERSHIP OR PROFESSIONAL PRIVILEGES OF A PHYSICIAN WHO WAS  PREVIOUSLY
 BOARD-CERTIFIED  AND  WHO  HAS  NOT MAINTAINED SUCH CERTIFICATION SOLELY
 BECAUSE SUCH PHYSICIAN IS NOT BOARD-CERTIFIED.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09133-01-9
              

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