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NY S07946
Bill
Status
6/17/2016
Primary Sponsor
Andrew Lanza
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AI Summary
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Requires emergency room and hospital practitioners to consult the prescription monitoring program registry when treating a patient for a controlled substance overdose.
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Mandates that emergency room and hospital practitioners notify the patient's prescriber when treating a patient for a controlled substance overdose.
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Adds controlled substance overdose treatment notifications as a permitted disclosure purpose under the prescription monitoring program registry.
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Authorizes practitioners to receive information from the registry that a patient is under treatment for a controlled substance overdose by hospital or emergency room practitioners.
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Takes effect immediately, with certain provisions subject to expiration and reversion under existing law.
Legislative Description
Requires hospital and emergency room physicians to consult the prescription monitoring program registry and to notify a patient's prescriber that such patient is being treated for a controlled substance overdose.
Last Action
referred to health
6/17/2016