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Senate Bill S10513

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to disclosing certain diagnostic results to patients on their electronic health record

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2025-S10513 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §18-d, Pub Health L

2025-S10513 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the disclosure of a pathology report or radiology report that has a reasonable likelihood of showing a finding of malignancy to patients on their electronic health record for seventy-two hours or unless the treating practitioner contacts the patient before the end of the seventy-two hour period.

2025-S10513 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S10513 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10513
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to disclosing certain
   diagnostic results to patients on their electronic health record
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 18-d to read as follows:
   § 18-D. DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS. 1. FOR THE  PURPOSES
 OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A)  "ELECTRONIC  HEALTH  RECORD"  SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS SUCH
 TERM IS DEFINED BY SECTION FORTY-FOUR HUNDRED EIGHT OF THIS CHAPTER.
   (B) "TREATING PRACTITIONER" SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS  SUCH  TERM
 IS DEFINED BY SECTION EIGHTEEN OF THIS TITLE.
   2.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION  OF  LAW  TO THE CONTRARY, WHERE A
 PATHOLOGY REPORT OR RADIOLOGY REPORT  HAS  A  REASONABLE  LIKELIHOOD  OF
 SHOWING A FINDING OF MALIGNANCY, SUCH REPORT SHALL NOT BE DISCLOSED TO A
 PATIENT  AS  A  PART OF THEIR ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD UNTIL SEVENTY-TWO
 HOURS AFTER SUCH REPORT IS FINALIZED, UNLESS THE  TREATING  PRACTITIONER
 CONTACTS THE PATIENT REGARDING THE RESULTS OF SUCH REPORT BEFORE THE END
 OF THE SEVENTY-TWO HOUR PERIOD.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15935-01-6

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