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History
- Print number 9537a
- Amend (t) and recommit to health
- Referred to health
Companion bill
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Relates to extending the patient bill of rights to faculty practices and out-patient clinics associated with hospitals
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor Pedro Espada Jr.
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:A9537A
Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to extending the patient bill of rights to faculty practices and out-pa- tient clinics associated with hospitals
Purpose or general idea of bill
To make the Patients' Bill of Rights applicable to faculty practices.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 22. Section 22. Patients rights; out-pa- tient clinics and faculty practices. The commissioner shall require that every out-patient clinic and faculty practice associated with a hospital adopt and make public an identical statement of the rights and responsi- bilities of patients required to be made by hospitals pursuant to para- graph (g) of subdivision on of section twenty-eight hundred three of this chapter.
Justification
In recent years, there have been allegations against New York's academic medical centers for their practice of steering Medicaid and uninsured patients away from faculty practices into clinics, where they do not receive access to the same quality of care as privately-in- sured patients. The faculty practices are often located within, or next to Article 28 general hospitals but are not obligated by any of the requirements of the Patients' Bill of Rights because they are classified as independent physicians' group practices. This legislation would address the omission of faculty practices and out-patient clinics by explicitly including these facilities under the Patients' Bill of Rights. This measure will address the separate and unequal delivery of specialty care in New York's academic medical centers by ending the practice of sorting patients into different settings for out-patient care based upon their insurance status.
Prior legislative history
New Bill
Fiscal implications
None
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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