Bill Text: NY A00407 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires nursing homes to provide potential residents with policy on granting physician privileges prior to executing agreement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-20 - signed chap.492 [A00407 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00407-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           407
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health
        AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to prior notice of
          physician privileges in nursing home residency agreements
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2803-c of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph q to read as follows:
     3    q.  A  statement  indicating  the policy of the facility regarding the
     4  granting of physician privileges to residents.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     6  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01980-01-9