Bill Text: NY A09020 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to establish a blood clot and pulmonary embolism policy workgroup.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-05 - print number 9020a [A09020 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9020

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 5, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  establishing  a
          blood  clot and pulmonary embolism policy workgroup; and providing for
          the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 32 to read as follows:
     3    32. The commissioner shall establish a blood clot and pulmonary embol-
     4  ism policy workgroup. (a) The workgroup shall:
     5    (i) Identify the aggregate number of people who experience blood clots
     6  and pulmonary embolisms each year in this state.
     7    (ii)  Identify  how data is collected regarding blood clots, pulmonary
     8  embolisms, and adverse health outcomes associated with these conditions.
     9    (iii) Identify how blood clots  and  pulmonary  embolisms  impact  the
    10  lives of people in this state.
    11    (iv)  Identify  the  standards  of  care  for blood clot surveillance,
    12  detection, and treatment.
    13    (v) Identify emerging treatments, therapies, and research relating  to
    14  blood clots.
    15    (vi)  Develop a risk surveillance system to help health care providers
    16  identify patients who may be at a higher risk of forming blood clots and
    17  pulmonary embolisms.
    18    (vii) Develop policy recommendations to help improve patient awareness
    19  of blood clot risks.
    20    (viii) Develop policy recommendations to help improve surveillance and
    21  detection of patients who may be at a higher risk of forming blood clots
    22  in licensed health care facilities, including hospitals, nursing  homes,
    23  assisted  living facilities, residential treatment facilities, and ambu-
    24  latory surgical centers.
    25    (ix) Develop policy recommendations relating to guidelines  used  that
    26  affect the standard of care for patients at risk of forming blood clots.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13187-01-3
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     1    (x)  Develop policy recommendations relating to providing patients and
     2  their families with written notice of increased risks of  forming  blood
     3  clots.
     4    (b)  (i)  The  workgroup  shall  be composed of health care providers,
     5  patients who have experienced blood clots, family  members  of  patients
     6  who  have died from blood clots, advocates, and other interested parties
     7  and associations.
     8    (ii) The governor, the temporary  president  of  the  senate  and  the
     9  speaker of the assembly shall each appoint two members to the workgroup.
    10    (iii) The commissioner shall appoint the chair of the workgroup.
    11    (iv)  Members of the workgroup shall receive no compensation for their
    12  services, but may be paid their actual and necessary  expenses  incurred
    13  in serving the workgroup.
    14    (v)  The  chair  is  authorized  to  create subcommittees to help with
    15  research, scheduling speakers on  important  subjects,  and  drafting  a
    16  workgroup report and policy recommendations.
    17    (vi)  Meetings  of the workgroup may be held through teleconference or
    18  other electronic means.
    19    (c) (i) The chair of the  workgroup  shall  submit  an  annual  report
    20  detailing  the  findings  of  the  workgroup  and recommendations to the
    21  governor, temporary president of the  senate  and  the  speaker  of  the
    22  assembly.
    23    (ii)  The chair of the workgroup shall submit a final report detailing
    24  the findings of the  workgroup  and  recommendations  to  the  governor,
    25  temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly within
    26  four years of the effective date of this subdivision.
    27    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    28  deemed repealed five years after it shall have become a law.