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- Referred to health
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.1978
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to health
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Requires hospital and emergency room physicians to notify a patient's prescriber that such patient is being treated for a controlled substance overdose
In Assembly Committee · Health · Sponsor Michael Cusick
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Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospital and emergency room physicians to notify a patient's prescriber that such patient is being treated for a controlled substance overdose
Purpose or general idea of bill
Requires hospital and emergency room physicians to notify a patient's prescriber that such patient is being treated for a controlled substance over dose.
Summary of specific provisions
Sections 1 through 3 of the bill amends Public Health Law Section 3371 to extend provisions relating to the confidentiality of certain health records to the conveyance of information relating to the treatment of a patient for a controlled substance overdose.
Section 4 of the bill amends the opening paragraph of subdivision 2 of Public Health Law Section 3343-a by adding a requirement that every emergency room or hospital practitioner must consult the prescription monitoring program registry when treating a patient for a controlled substance overdose and also must notify the patients prescriber of the controlled substance of the patients overdose.
Section 5 of the bill is the effective date.
Justification
In the past several years, New York State has recognized that the rampant abuse and diversion of opioids has necessitated the implementation of various anti-abuse policies. It is clear that these policies need to be approached comprehensively by government, law enforcement and health care providers.
Since 2013, New York State has required that prescribers are required to consult the Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) Registry when prescribing Schedule II, Ill, and IV controlled substances. The information provided by this registry allows prescribers/practitioners to better evaluate their patients' treatment with controlled substances and determine whether there may be abuse of non-medical use.
This bill is a necessary and common sense extension of the purposes and requirements of (STOP and the prescription monitoring registry to insure that vital medical information is shared among health care practitioners. The bill mandates that an emergency room or hospital practitioner take two steps in treating a patient with an opioid overdose: consult the prescription monitoring registry and notify the patient's prescriber of the patient's treatment for an overdose. Such notification provides the prescriber with information vital to the proper medical treatment of the patient. Without such notification of the overdose, it is very possible that the prescriber/practitioner would not know that the patient had suffered an overdose of the opioid.
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Fiscal implications
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Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that the amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 3371 of the public health law as amended by section two of this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such subdivision when upon such date the provisions of section three of this act shall take effect.
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