Bill Text: NY S06990 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes technical corrections to the practice of podiatry.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-14 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S06990 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06990-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6990
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 14, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  making  technical
          changes to the scope of the practice of podiatry
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 7001 of the education  law,
     2  subdivision  1 as amended by chapter 23 of the laws of 2013 and subdivi-
     3  sion 2 as amended by chapter 438 of the laws of  2012,  are  amended  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    1.  The  practice of the profession of podiatry is defined as diagnos-
     6  ing, treating,  operating  and  prescribing  for  any  disease,  injury,
     7  deformity  or other condition of the foot, the non-surgical treatment of
     8  the ankle and the anatomical structures of the ankle,  cutaneous  condi-
     9  tions and wounds of the ankle, and may include performing physical eval-
    10  uations  in conjunction with the provision of podiatric treatment.  [For
    11  the purposes of wound care  however,  the  practice  of  podiatry  shall
    12  include  the treatment of such wounds if they are contiguous with wounds
    13  relating, originating or in the course of treatment of a  wound  on  the
    14  foot  within  the podiatric scope of practice.] The practice of podiatry
    15  shall not include the following treatments or procedures performed above
    16  the level of the malleoli, unless otherwise provided: the  treatment  of
    17  melanoma;  performance  of  mohs  surgery; muscle flaps or microvascular
    18  anastamoses. Wound care shall not,  however,  extend  beyond  the  level
    19  ending  at  the [distal] tibial tuberosity. The practice of podiatry may
    20  also include [diagnosing, treating, operating and  prescribing  for  any
    21  disease, injury, deformity or other condition of] the surgical treatment
    22  of  the  ankle and soft tissue of the leg below the tibial tuberosity if
    23  the podiatrist has obtained an issuance of a privilege to perform podia-
    24  tric standard ankle surgery or advanced ankle surgery in accordance with
    25  section seven thousand nine of this article. Podiatrists may treat trau-
    26  matic open wound fractures only in  hospitals,  as  defined  in  article
    27  twenty-eight of the public health law. For the purposes of this article,
    28  the term "ankle" shall be defined as the distal metaphysis and epiphysis
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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