Assembly Bill A782

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to collaborative models for addressing health care disparities

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Current Bill Status Via S1451 - 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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2023-A782 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1451
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2805-x, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A6772, S4942
2021-2022: A1155, S1374

2023-A782 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to collaborative models for addressing health care disparities.

2023-A782 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    782
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health  law,  in  relation  to  collaborative
   models for addressing health care disparities
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 2805-x of the public health law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
   (D) COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMS  TO  ADDRESS  DISPARITIES  IN  HEALTH  CARE
 ACCESS  OR TREATMENT, AND/OR CONDITIONS OF HIGHER PREVALENCE, IN CERTAIN
 POPULATIONS, WHERE SUCH COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMS COULD PROVIDE AND  MANAGE
 SERVICES  IN A MORE EFFECTIVE, PERSON-CENTERED AND COST-EFFICIENT MANNER
 FOR REDUCTION OR ELIMINATION OF SUCH DISPARITIES.
   (I) SUCH PROGRAMS MAY TARGET ONE  OR  MORE  DISPARATE  CONDITIONS,  OR
 AREAS  OF UNDER-SERVICE, EVIDENCED IN DEFINED POPULATIONS, INCLUDING BUT
 NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   (A) CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE;
   (B) HYPERTENSION;
   (C) DIABETES;
   (D) CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE;
   (E) OBESITY;
   (F) ASTHMA;
   (G) SICKLE CELL DISEASE;
   (H) SEPSIS;
   (I) LUPUS;
   (J) BREAST, LUNG, PROSTATE AND COLORECTAL CANCERS;
   (K) GEOGRAPHIC SHORTAGE  OF  PRIMARY  CARE,  PRENATAL/OBSTETRIC  CARE,
 SPECIALTY  MEDICAL  CARE,  HOME  HEALTH CARE, OR CULTURALLY AND LINGUIS-
 TICALLY COMPATIBLE CARE;
   (L) ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, OR SUBSTANCE ABUSE;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00055-01-3
 A. 782                              2
              

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