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NY A10761
Bill
Status
6/18/2012
Primary Sponsor
Joan Millman
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AI Summary
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Requires health care providers, facilities, and practitioners ceasing operations, transferring ownership, or interrupting services to notify the Commissioner of Health at least 60 days in advance with a plan for transferring patient records.
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Authorizes the Commissioner to prescribe the form, requirements, and notification procedures for patient record transfer plans.
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Empowers the Commissioner to order new medical tests at state expense if patient records are not timely released and more than 6 months have elapsed since a prior screening or test, posing a health threat.
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Requires health care providers, facilities, or practitioners who fail to timely release records to reimburse the state for costs of any tests ordered by the Commissioner.
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Amends Education Law Section 6530 to reference the new patient information access standards in Public Health Law Sections 17 and 18-b.
Legislative Description
Requires a health care provider or facility which has determined to cease to do business or which is transferring its ownership or otherwise interrupting its services for a permanent or extended period to, at least sixty days prior to such action, notify the commissioner of health of its intent and shall provide a copy of its plan for transfer of patient records to another provider, facility or practitioner.
Last Action
referred to health
6/18/2012