Senate Bill S4043

2023-2024 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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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee


  • 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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2023-S4043 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9702
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:
2013-2014: S5400
2015-2016: S280
2017-2018: S4296, A10196
2019-2020: A3048
2021-2022: S4689, A1036

2023-S4043 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-S4043 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4043 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4043
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 2, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  RIVERA, GOUNARDES, KRUEGER, SALAZAR -- 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 amended by chapter
 238 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   §  6801-a.  Collaborative  drug  therapy   management   [demonstration
 program].    1.  As used in this section, the following terms shall have
 the following meanings:
   a. "Board" shall mean the state board of pharmacy  as  established  by
 section sixty-eight hundred four of this article.
   b. "Clinical services" shall mean the collection and interpretation of
 patient  data  for  the  purpose of initiating, modifying and monitoring
 drug therapy  with  associated  accountability  and  responsibility  for
 outcomes in a direct patient care setting.
   c.  "Collaborative drug therapy management" shall mean the performance
 of clinical 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  associated
 disease  states, 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.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00382-01-3
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