Bill Text: NY A00713 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for physician ranking for opiate prescriptions on a county by county basis.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to health [A00713 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A00713-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 713 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, HOOPER, STECK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to physician ranking for opiate prescriptions The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3343-a of the public health law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows: 3 2-a. On an annual basis, the department shall provide to all author- 4 ized prescribers of opiates, as defined in subdivision b of schedule I 5 of section three thousand three hundred six of this article, notice 6 stating the number of prescriptions for opiates written by such prescri- 7 ber during the previous calendar year, and the prescriber's numerical 8 ranking and percentile ranking relative to other prescribers within each 9 county where the prescriber practices based on such number. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03659-01-7
