STATE OF NEW YORK
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6990
IN SENATE
March 14, 2016
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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.
LBD05334-08-6