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- Print number 4860a
- Amend and recommit to health
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Authorizes expedited partner therapy for certain sexually transmitted infections
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor Michelle Schimel
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Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing expedited partner therapy for certain sexually transmitted infections
Purpose
To allow for expedited partner therapy for sexually transmitted infections that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend for the sexual partner or partners of someone having been diagnosed with the disease.
Summary of provisions
Section one, subdivision one allows a health care provider practitioner who is authorized under New York State law to diagnose or prescribe drugs for sexually transmitted infections, may prescribe or dispense antibiotic drugs to that person's sexual partner or partners without examining the patient's partner or partners.
Subdivision two protects health care practitioners who conduct expedited partner therapy in good faith and in accordance with this legislation from civil or criminal liability.
Subdivision three requires the Commissioner of Health to promulgate regulations and develop forms for patients and their partners explaining expedited partner therapy for sexually transmitted infections that the CDC recommends.
Section two sets the effective date
Justification
In 2005, the New York State passed a law to allow health care providers with prescriptive privileges to provide expedited partner therapy (EPT) for Chlamydia infection when the prescriber's judgment is that the partner(s) will not seek a personal medical visit. This law has helped improve treatment rates for partners and decrease re-infection rates for partners.
The bill will expand the current law to include other sexually transmitted infections that the CDC recommends for expedited partner therapy.
EPT helps physicians and other health care providers decrease rates of sexually transmitted infections. While expedited partner therapy in no way replaces a face to face interaction with a health care provider, it can help patients who otherwise would not reach out for treatment.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found through randomized controlled tests that expedited Partner therapy has the potential for the same success that it has shown with Chlamydia with other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). EPT can be highly effective in decreasing infection rates with other STIs that can be cured by taking antibiotics by mouth, such as gonorrhea.
Legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
None to the state.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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