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- Recommitted to rules
- Ordered to third reading cal.1274
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Reported and committed to finance
- Referred to health
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Provides for reimbursement for the provision of offsite primary care services by general hospital outpatient clinics and diagnostic and treatment centers
In Assembly Committee · Health · Sponsor Richard Gottfried
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S7480
Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to reimbursement for the provision of offsite primary care services
Purpose
This bill amends the public health law to authorize and pay for house calls made by hospital/clinic employed practitioners.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends the public health law to allow general hospital outpa- tient clinics and diagnostic and treatment centers to provide house calls, in certain circumstances, and receive payment for the services, subject to federal financial participation.
Section 2 - Effective Date.
Justification
To retain and recruit physicians in rural and under- served communities, hospitals need to employ them. However, once employed by a hospital, physicians are no longer allowed to treat patients in the patients' homes or in nursing homes. This means that elderly, infirmed, and disabled patients must be transported, many by ambulance, to hospital clinics or EDs to receive routine care. Feder- ally Qualified Health Centers can, by federal rules, offer practitioner "house calls." FQHCs are also licensed under Article 28 of the public health law as a diagnostic and treatment center. The bill would use the FQHC authorization as a model and allow all diagnostic and treatment centers and general hospital outpatient clinics to provide offsite primary care services, in certain circumstances, and receive payment for the services.
Legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect 120 days after enactment.
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