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NY A03450
Bill
Status
5/11/2015
Primary Sponsor
Keith Wright
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AI Summary
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Requires health care practitioners who issue disability opinions differing from an applicant's treating practitioner to provide explicit written determinations explaining their disagreement and supporting evidence.
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Establishes that a treating health care practitioner's disability opinion is generally controlling when it differs from a referred practitioner's opinion.
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Identifies four factors to consider when evaluating differing practitioner opinions: length and frequency of treatment, consistency with medical records, degree of supporting evidence, and the practitioner's specialty.
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Amends Section 332-b of the Social Services Law to add new subdivisions 4-a and 4-b governing these disability determination procedures.
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Takes effect 90 days after the bill becomes law.
Legislative Description
Provides factors to be considered when a health care practitioner's opinion differs from that of referral's treating health care practitioner as to a disability; requires such health care practitioner to provide an explicit written determination and to present evidence when such practitioner's diagnosis differs from that of the treating health care practitioner who referred the patient.
Last Action
REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES
5/16/2016