Bill Text: NY S04182 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that dentists' offices shall be originating sites for the purposes of telehealth delivery of services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-08-13 - SIGNED CHAP.167 [S04182 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4182
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 5, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to  amend  the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to  including
         dentist's  offices  as  originating  sites  for purposes of telehealth
         delivery of services
         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 2999-cc of the public health law,
    2  as added by a chapter of the laws of 2015, amending  the  public  health
    3  law  and  other laws relating to the telehealth delivery of services, as
    4  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 2405 and A. 2552-A, is  amended
    5  to read as follows:
    6    3.  "Originating  site"  means a site at which a patient is located at
    7  the time health care services are delivered to him or her  by  means  of
    8  telehealth.  Originating  sites  shall be limited to facilities licensed
    9  under articles twenty-eight and forty of  this  chapter,  facilities  as
   10  defined  in  subdivision  six of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law,
   11  private physician's OR DENTIST'S offices located within the state of New
   12  York and, when a patient is receiving health care services by  means  of
   13  remote  patient  monitoring,  the  patient's  place of residence located
   14  within the state of New York or other temporary location located  within
   15  or outside the state of New York.
   16    S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
   17  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2015, amending the public health  law
   18  and  other  laws  relating  to  the  telehealth delivery of services, as
   19  proposed in legislative bills numbers  S.  2405  and  A.  2552-A,  takes
   20  effect.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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