Bill Text: NY A02734 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the category of "qualified group practice" for medical, dental and podiatric practices that comply with certain standards and authorizes such practices to operate a malpractice prevention program.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A02734 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02734-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2734
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 23, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, SEPULVEDA -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Health
        AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to qualified group
          practices
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  2998-f to read as follows:
     3    § 2998-f. Qualified group  practice.  1.  For  the  purposes  of  this
     4  section, "qualified group practice" means a medical, dental or podiatric
     5  group  practice  or other lawful combination of such health care practi-
     6  tioners, licensed or certified pursuant to title eight of the  education
     7  law, that meets the standards set forth in paragraphs (a) through (h) of
     8  subdivision  one of section twenty-eight hundred five-j of this chapter,
     9  other than the governing board requirements of such paragraph (a).
    10    2. A qualified group practice may  operate  a  malpractice  prevention
    11  program  independently,  or  through  an  otherwise lawful collaborative
    12  arrangement with a hospital or  accountable  care  organization  program
    13  operated  pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred five-j or twenty-nine
    14  hundred ninety-nine-r of this chapter, in which case the qualified group
    15  practice and the hospital or accountable  care  organization  may  share
    16  confidential  information  with each other for purposes of such practice
    17  without waiving confidentiality with respect to others.
    18    3. A qualified group practice shall be  deemed  a  hospital,  and  its
    19  malpractice  prevention  program  shall  be deemed a medical, dental and
    20  podiatric malpractice prevention program, for the purposes  of  subdivi-
    21  sion  two  of  section  twenty-eight hundred five-j, subdivision four of
    22  section twenty-eight hundred five-k  and  section  twenty-eight  hundred
    23  five-m  of  this  chapter,  and  subdivision three of section sixty-five
    24  hundred twenty-seven of the education law. Such provisions of law  shall
    25  apply  to its information, records, documentation and committee actions,
    26  and to participants in committee proceedings.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02471-01-7