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NY A00061
Bill
Status
1/5/2011
Primary Sponsor
Kevin Cahill
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AI Summary
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Amends Executive Law Section 296 to prohibit physicians, hospitals, and health care providers from allowing visual observation of patients with disabilities during physical examinations by unnecessary personnel without informed consent
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Requires providers to inform competent patients or their legal representatives (parents, guardians, committees, conservators) of the name, position, and function of all personnel authorized to observe examinations, including students
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Permits patients or their legal representatives to refuse examination and/or observation by any personnel not necessary for diagnosis or treatment
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Applies to all visual observation situations except those necessary for diagnosis, treatment, or medical education with proper consent
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Takes effect immediately upon enactment
Legislative Description
Provides that it shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any physician, hospital or other health care provider to subject a patient with a disability to visual observation during the course of any physical examination by any person not necessary to the diagnosis or treatment of such patient or to any exhibition for medical education purposes without the patient (if competent) or the parent, guardian, committee or conservator being informed of the name, purpose or function of those in attendance and the right to refuse that examination and/or observation by the unnecessary personnel.
Last Action
referred to governmental operations
1/5/2011