Title PBH, Public Health

§ 234. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature hereby finds, determines, and declares that: 1. There is a necessity to address different approaches to rural health care delivery in the state. These approaches need to support diverse community and individual needs includ…

§ 235. Definitions. For the purposes of this article: 1. "Rural area" shall mean a county with a population of two hundred thousand persons or less, or a town with a population density of one hundred fifty persons or less per square mile. 2. "Rural health care provider" or "rura…

§ 236. Charles D. Cook office of rural health created. There is hereby created the Charles D. Cook office of rural health within the state department of health. Such office shall: 1. Integrate and coordinate selected state health care grant and loan programs established specific…

§ 236-a. Study of health professional employment incentives. 1. The legislature hereby finds and declares that: a. Some parts of rural New York are suffering from physician and nurse practitioner shortages forcing residents to forego proper care or travel long distances to recei…

§ 236-b. Rural health council. 1. There shall be established within the office a rural health council to be composed of twenty-one members who shall be appointed by the governor, with ten of these members appointed as follows: a. four members upon the recommendation of the tempo…

§ 237. Preparation and distribution of reports. The department shall submit a biennial report to the governor and the legislature describing the activities of the office and health status of rural areas. The first such report shall be transmitted on or before September first, ni…

§ 238. Definitions. As used in this title, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: 1. "Clinical laboratory services" shall mean the microbiological, serological, chemical, hematological, biophysical, cytological or pa…

§ 238-a. Prohibition of financial arrangements and referrals. 1. (a) A practitioner authorized to order clinical laboratory services, pharmacy services, radiation therapy services, physical therapy services or x-ray or imaging services may not make a referral for such services t…

§ 238-b. Provider requests for payment. Each request for payment or bill submitted by a health care provider for clinical laboratory, pharmacy services, radiation therapy services, physical therapy services or x-ray or imaging services for which the provider knows or has reason …

§ 238-c. Provider reporting requirements. Each health care provider providing clinical laboratory, pharmacy services, radiation therapy services, physical therapy services or x-ray or imaging services shall report to the commissioner in writing every two years information concer…

§ 238-d. Practitioner disclosure requirements. 1. With respect to referrals not prohibited pursuant to this title, and except as provided in subdivision three of this section, a practitioner may not make a referral to a health care provider for the furnishing of any health or he…

§ 238-e. Study of referrals by practitioners. 1. The commissioner may conduct a study of the ownership of or financial interests in health care providers by referring practitioners. Such study shall investigate: (a) the types of such ownership arrangements and types of services …

§ 239. Course work or training in infection control practices. (a) Every physician, physician assistant and specialist assistant practicing in the state shall, on or before July first, nineteen hundred ninety-four and every four years thereafter, complete course work or training…

§ 239-a. Infection control guidelines. The commissioner shall develop evidence-based guidelines that identify key infection control practices in inpatient and outpatient medical care settings. Such guidelines shall specifically cover safe injection practices. On or before Januar…

§ 239-b. Study on multidose vials and disposable medical equipment. The department shall conduct a study on medications packaged in multidose vials and disposable medical equipment, including but not limited to syringes, needles, stopcocks and tubing. Such study shall examine: 1…

§ 24. Disclosure. 1. A health care professional, or a group practice of health care professionals, a diagnostic and treatment center or a health center defined under 42 U.S.C. § 254b on behalf of health care professionals rendering services at the group practice, diagnostic and …

* § 240. State health areas; establishment; regional and district; appointment of officers. 1. The commissioner shall from time to time divide the state, except cities of the first class, into as many regional and district health areas as he may determine to be necessary for the…

* § 240. Definitions. For the purposes of this article: 1. "Underserved populations" shall mean those who have experienced injustices and disadvantages as a result of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability status, age, immigrati…

§ 2400. Cancer; powers and duties of commissioner. The commissioner shall conduct investigations of the cause, mortality, methods of treatment, prevention and cure of cancer, and allied diseases, including the nature and extent of the facilities available in the several counties…

§ 2401. Cancer; duty to report. 1. Every physician, dentist and other health care provider shall give notice immediately but not later than one hundred eighty days of every case of cancer or other malignant disease coming under his or her care, to the department, except as other…

§ 2401-a. Skin cancer reporting. The department shall submit a written report every three years, commencing January first, two thousand eighteen, to the governor and the legislature on the incidence of skin cancer in the state of New York, by type and as a percentage of the over…

* § 2401-b. Cancer incidence and environmental facility maps. 1. For purposes of this section, "environmental facility" shall have the same meaning as provided in section 3-0317 of the environmental conservation law. 2. For purposes of this section, "cancer incidence and environ…

§ 2402. Cancer; reports confidential. The reports of cancer cases made pursuant to the provisions of this article shall not be divulged or made public so as to disclose the identity of any person to whom they relate, by any person, except in so far as may be authorized in the sa…

§ 2403. Cancer; compulsory submission for supervision or inspection not required. Nothing in this article shall be construed to compel any individual to submit to medical or health department supervision or inspection.

§ 2404. Breast cancer; duty to inform. 1. The commissioner shall develop a standardized written summary, in plain non-technical language, which shall explain the alternative medically viable methods of treating breast cancer, including but not limited to hormonal, radiological, …

§ 2404-a. Prostate cancer; duty to inform. 1. The commissioner shall develop a standardized written summary, in plain non-technical language, which shall explain the following: (a) the symptoms and risk factors for prostate cancer; (b) the available methods for the detection and…

§ 2404-b. Breast cancer; duty of providers of mammography services to ascertain and provide clinical breast examination information. Every provider who provides mammography services shall ascertain when, or if, their patients have had a clinical breast examination prior to provi…

§ 2404-c. Breast cancer; duty of providers of mammography services to notify and inform. Every provider of mammography services shall, if a patient's mammogram demonstrates dense breast tissue, provide notification to such patient that shall include, but not be limited to, the f…

§ 2404-d. Breast cancer; duty to provide extended hours. 1. Applicability. This section shall apply to any general hospital or extension clinic that is certified as a mammography facility pursuant to the federal mammography quality standards act (MQSA). 2. Extended service hours…

§ 2405. Cancer detection and education program; establishment. 1. There is hereby created within the department the cancer detection and education program, also known as the cancer services program. This program is established to promote screening and detection of cancer among u…

§ 2406. Grants to approved organizations. 1. The commissioner shall make grants within the amounts appropriated to approved organizations for the provision of services relating to the evidence based screening and detection of cancer as part of this program. Such services shall i…

§ 2406-a. Grants to community-based organizations. 1. The commissioner shall make grants within any such amount as may be appropriated specifically for community-based organizations for the provision of counseling, education and outreach programs for persons diagnosed with breas…

§ 2408. Annual report. The commissioner shall submit on or before December first, an annual report to the governor and the legislature concerning the operation of the breast and cervical cancer detection and education program. Commencing in nineteen hundred ninety-five, such rep…

§ 2409. Ovarian cancer information program. 1. There is hereby created within the department the ovarian cancer information program (referred to in this section as the "program"), which shall provide information for consumers, patients, and health care providers relating to ovar…

§ 2409-a. Advisory council. 1. There is hereby established in the department the cancer detection and education program advisory council, for the purpose of advising the commissioner with regards to providing information to consumers, patients, and health care providers relating…

* § 241. Regional health directors; powers and duties. Each regional health director, subject to the provisions of this chapter and the sanitary code, shall act as the representative of the commissioner in all matters affecting public health within his region and shall perform s…

* § 241. Office of health equity created. There is hereby created an office of health equity within the state department of health. Such office shall: 1. Work collaboratively with other state agencies and affected stakeholders, including providers and representatives of underser…

§ 2410. Health research science board. 1. There is hereby established in the department the health research science board. The board shall be comprised of seventeen voting members, three non-voting regional members and three non-voting ex-officio members as follows: (a) twelve v…

§ 2411. Powers and duties of the board. 1. The board shall: (a) Survey state agencies, boards, programs and other state governmental entities to assess what, if any, relevant data has been or is being collected which may be of use to researchers engaged in breast cancer research…

§ 2412. Agency implementation. All state agencies, including, but not limited to, the departments of agriculture and markets, environmental conservation, and health, shall review their programs and operations (pursuant to guidelines established by the board) to determine whether…

§ 2413. Biennial report. The commissioner shall submit a report on or before January first commencing in nineteen hundred ninety-nine, and biennially thereafter, to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly concerning the operation of th…

* § 242. District health officers; powers and duties. 1. Each state district health officer, under the direction of the commissioner and subject to the provisions of this chapter and the sanitary code, shall act under the immediate supervision of the regional health director of …

* § 242. Preparation and distribution of reports. The department shall submit a biennial report to the governor and the legislature describing the activities of the office and health status of minority areas. The first such report shall be transmitted on or before September firs…

§ 2420. Cancer institute; continued. The state institute for the study of malignant diseases, known as the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, is hereby continued under the management and control of the department.

§ 2421. Cancer institute; functions; powers and duties. 1. The state institute for the study of malignant diseases, shall conduct investigations of the cause, mortality, treatment, prevention and cure of cancer and allied diseases. 2. Persons afflicted with cancer or allied dise…

§ 2422. Cancer institute; commissioner's duty to publish reports. The commissioner shall publish from time to time the result of the investigations by the state institute for the study of malignant diseases for the benefit of humanity, and from time to time, he shall collate its…

§ 2423. Cancer institute; administration of gifts and trusts. The commissioner, as the successor of the board of trustees of the state institute for the study of malignant diseases, shall execute and administer any gifts, transfer or trust heretofore made to or for the benefit o…

* § 243. State health areas; professional and other employees. Whenever he may deem it expedient so to do, the commissioner may employ such professional or other assistants or employees as he shall consider necessary within the limits of his appropriation, and may assign them fr…

* § 243. Health equity council. 1. Appointment of members. There shall be established in the office of health equity a health equity council to consist of the commissioner and fourteen members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Membership …

§ 244. Transgender and non-binary (TGNB) wellness and equity program. 1. The department, through the AIDS institute, shall establish and operate a transgender and non-binary (TGNB) wellness and equity program as authorized pursuant to this section. Such program shall be establis…