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N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-LL Instruction to identified caregiver
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§ 2994-ll. Instruction to identified caregiver. 1. As soon as possible and not later than twenty-four hours prior to a patient's discharge from a hospital, the hospital shall consult with the identified caregiver along with the patient regarding the caregiver's capabilities and …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-M Ethics review committees
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§ 2994-m. Ethics review committees. 1. Establishment of an ethics review committee, written policy. Each hospital shall establish at least one ethics review committee or participate in an ethics review committee that serves more than one hospital, and shall adopt a written polic…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-MM Effect on other rights
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§ 2994-mm. Effect on other rights. 1. Nothing in this article shall be construed to interfere with the rights of an agent operating under a valid health care directive created under section twenty-nine hundred eighty-two of this chapter. 2. Nothing in this article shall be const…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-N Conscience objections
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§ 2994-n. Conscience objections. 1. Private hospitals. Nothing in this article shall be construed to require a private hospital to honor a health care decision made pursuant to this article if: (a) The decision is contrary to a formally adopted policy of the hospital that is exp…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-O Immunity
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§ 2994-o. Immunity. 1. Ethics review committee. No person shall be subject to criminal or civil liability, or be deemed to have engaged in unprofessional conduct, for acts performed reasonably and in good faith pursuant to this article as a member of or as a consultant to an eth…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-P Liability for health care costs
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§ 2994-p. Liability for health care costs. Liability for the cost of health care provided to an adult patient pursuant to this article shall be the same as if the health care were provided pursuant to the patient's decision. No person shall become liable for the cost of health c…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-Q Effect on other rights
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§ 2994-q. Effect on other rights. 1. Nothing in this article creates, expands, diminishes, impairs, or supersedes any authority that an individual may have under law to make or express decisions, wishes, or instructions regarding health care on his or her own behalf, including d…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-R Special proceeding authorized; court orders; health care guardian for minor patient
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§ 2994-r. Special proceeding authorized; court orders; health care guardian for minor patient. 1. Special proceeding. Any person connected with the case and any member of the hospital ethics review committee may commence a special proceeding pursuant to article four of the civil…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-S Remedy
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§ 2994-s. Remedy. 1. Any hospital, attending practitioner that refuses to honor a health care decision by a surrogate made pursuant to this article and in accord with the standards set forth in this article shall not be entitled to compensation for treatment, services, or proced…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-T Regulations
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§ 2994-t. Regulations. 1. The commissioner shall establish such regulations as may be necessary to implement this article. 2. The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioners of the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities, shall …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2994-U Rights to be publicized
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§ 2994-u. Rights to be publicized. The commissioner shall prepare a statement summarizing the rights, duties, and requirements of this article and shall require that a copy of such statement be furnished to a patient or to the patient's surrogate, or to the parent or guardian of…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2995 Structure and definitions
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§ 2995. Structure and definitions. 1. Structure. * (a) The department shall undertake an initiative for the purposes of increasing the information available to patients about health care providers and health care plans, and improving the quality of health care in this state, by …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2995-A Physician profiles
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§ 2995-a. Physician profiles. 1. The department shall collect the following information and create individual profiles on licensees subject to the authority of the office of professional medical conduct, in a format that shall be available for dissemination to the public: (a) a …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2995-B Hospital report cards
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§ 2995-b. Hospital report cards. 1. Collection. The department shall collect the following hospital data for dissemination to inform consumer decisionmaking via a statewide health information system: (a) Utilization and performance information to promote quality improvement acti…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2995-C Health care plan and preferred provider organization data
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§ 2995-c. Health care plan and preferred provider organization data. 1. Collection. The department shall collect for dissemination via a statewide health information system, any health care plan and preferred provider organization data collected for public dissemination pursuant…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2995-D Further study of other health care practitioner data
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§ 2995-d. Further study of other health care practitioner data. The department shall: 1. Identify the classes of health care practitioners licensed, certified or registered pursuant to title eight of the education law, concerning whom it would be feasible and useful to collect a…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2996 Study of physician credentialing
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§ 2996. Study of physician credentialing. 1. The department shall examine the feasibility of establishing a clearinghouse for credentialing information to reduce the burden for physicians required to submit credentials to entities licensed and regulated by the state. As part of …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2997 Patient privacy
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§ 2997. Patient privacy. 1. The department shall examine state laws protecting the privacy of individual patient data, and determine the necessity of supplementing existing protections. 2. The department shall examine federal initiatives protecting the privacy of individual pati…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2997-A Public access
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§ 2997-a. Public access. Nothing in this title shall abridge public access to information currently available or permitted by any other provision or rule of law. Nothing in this title shall not authorize the disclosure of otherwise confidential information, except pursuant to th…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2997-B Pamphlet of department programs
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§ 2997-b. Pamphlet of department programs. The commissioner shall develop and transmit to physicians in the state a pamphlet describing a variety of department programs and initiatives, including but not limited to smoking cessation programs, public health insurance programs, he…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2997-C Palliative care patient information
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§ 2997-c. Palliative care patient information. 1. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (a) "Appropriate" means consistent with applicable legal, health and professional standar…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2997-D Hospital, nursing home, home care, special needs assisted living residences and enhanced assisted living residences palliative care support
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§ 2997-d. Hospital, nursing home, home care, special needs assisted living residences and enhanced assisted living residences palliative care support. 1. (a) "Palliative care" means health care treatment, including interdisciplinary end-of-life care, and consultation with patien…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2997-E Provision of contact information relating to long term care
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§ 2997-e. Provision of contact information relating to long term care. Whenever a health care provider or practitioner makes a recommendation regarding the necessity of long term care services or a referral for the receipt of long term care services to a patient, the patient or …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2997-F Provision of information relating to aging services
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§ 2997-f. Provision of information relating to aging services. Whenever a hospital is discharging an individual aged sixty years of age or older, the hospital's discharge coordinator shall provide such individual with a copy of the information provided to them pursuant to subdiv…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2997-F-1 Provision of information relating to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy
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§ 2997-f-1. Provision of information relating to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. 1. Any health care practitioner who is treating a patient diagnosed with epilepsy and at elevated risk for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, who has primary responsibility for the treatment …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2997-G Legislative intent
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§ 2997-g. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds and declares that it is in the public interest for health care facilities to implement safe patient handling policies. There are many benefits that can be derived from safe patient handling programs. Patients benefit thr…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2997-H Definitions
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§ 2997-h. Definitions. For the purposes of this title: 1. "Health care facility" shall mean general hospitals, residential health care facilities, diagnostic and treatment centers, and clinics licensed pursuant to article twenty-eight of this chapter, facilities which provide he…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2997-I Safe patient handling workgroup
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§ 2997-i. Safe patient handling workgroup. 1. The commissioner shall establish a safe patient handling workgroup (referred to in this section as the "workgroup") within the department. The workgroup shall consist of, at the minimum, the commissioner or his or her designee; the c…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2997-J Dissemination of best practices, examples of sample safe patient handling policies and other resources and tools
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§ 2997-j. Dissemination of best practices, examples of sample safe patient handling policies and other resources and tools. The commissioner shall disseminate best practices, examples of sample safe patient handling policies, and other resources and tools to health care faciliti…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2997-K Safe patient handling committees; programs
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§ 2997-k. Safe patient handling committees; programs. 1. On or before January first, two thousand sixteen, each health care facility shall establish a safe patient handling committee (referred to in this section as a "committee" except where the context clearly requires otherwis…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2997-L Activities
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§ 2997-l. Activities. The activities enumerated in section twenty-nine hundred ninety-seven-k of this title shall be undertaken consistent with section twenty-eight hundred five-j of this chapter by a covered health care provider and shall be deemed activities of such program as…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2998 Patient safety center
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§ 2998. Patient safety center. 1. There is established within the department a patient safety center, referred to in this article as "the center". 2. The purpose of the center is to maximize patient safety, reduce medical errors, and improve the quality of health care by improvi…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2998-A Information
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§ 2998-a. Information. 1. The center shall identify available information that is useful for maximizing patient safety, reducing medical errors, and improving health care quality, including information available from federal, state and local agencies. The center shall evaluate r…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2998-B Safety goals
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§ 2998-b. Safety goals. 1. The center shall: (a) Promote the development and dissemination or regional and statewide performance information, and efforts by health care organizations, health plans, health care providers and health care professionals to participate in voluntary, …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2998-C Best practices
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§ 2998-c. Best practices. 1. The center shall: (a) Review and promote research to assist health care providers and health plans in identifying systemic problems in health care leading to medical errors or impairing patient safety or health care quality, identifying appropriate q…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2998-D Voluntary and collaborative reporting system
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§ 2998-d. Voluntary and collaborative reporting system. The center, in collaboration with health care providers, shall develop a voluntary and collaborative reporting system, for the purposes of obtaining information useful for maximizing patient safety, reducing medical errors,…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2998-E Reporting in office based surgery
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§ 2998-e. Reporting in office based surgery. 1. The commissioner may enter into agreements with accrediting agencies to require all office-based surgical practices to conduct quality improvement and quality assurance activities and utilize certification by an appropriate certify…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2998-F Reporting of the health risk factors of excessive alcohol consumption
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§ 2998-f. Reporting of the health risk factors of excessive alcohol consumption. The department, in collaboration with the office of addiction services and supports and health care providers, shall collect data on and report the health risk factor of excessive alcohol consumptio…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2999 Contracting with private entities
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§ 2999. Contracting with private entities. The center may contract with one or more private entities to undertake the duties delineated in this title. Such entities shall remain subject to existing confidentiality protections.
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2999-A Public access
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§ 2999-a. Public access. Nothing in this title shall abridge public access to information currently available or permitted by any other provision or rule of law. Nothing in this title shall authorize the disclosure of otherwise confidential information, except pursuant to the ex…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2999-AA Antitrust provisions, state oversight
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§ 2999-aa. Antitrust provisions, state oversight. 1. In order to promote improved quality and efficiency of, and access to, health care services and to promote improved clinical outcomes to the residents of New York, it shall be the policy of the state to encourage, where approp…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2999-B Legislative intent
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* § 2999-b. Legislative intent. It is the intent of the legislature to promote patient safety and the quality of care, as well as the cost effectiveness of such care, by convening providers and payers to develop clinical measures, and the metrics on which to measure provider per…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2999-BB Department authority
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§ 2999-bb. Department authority. The department shall promulgate regulations to implement this article. Such regulations shall provide standards for determining which proposed collaborations, integrations, mergers or acquisitions shall be covered by this article and the manner b…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2999-C Definition
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* § 2999-c. Definition. "Health care plan" shall have the same meaning set forth in subdivision four-e of section forty-nine hundred of this chapter. * NB Expired April 1, 2011
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2999-CC Definitions
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§ 2999-cc. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Distant site" means a site at which a telehealth provider is located while delivering health care services by means of telehealth. Any site within the United States or Uni…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2999-D Commissioner's workgroup
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* § 2999-d. Commissioner's workgroup. 1. The commissioner shall, within ninety days of the effective date of this title, convene and chair, directly or through a designee or designees, a workgroup including but not necessarily limited to representatives of statewide and regional…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2999-DD Telehealth delivery of services
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§ 2999-dd. Telehealth delivery of services. * 1. Health care services\ndelivered by means of telehealth shall be entitled to reimbursement\nunder section three hundred sixty-seven-u of the social services law on\nthe same basis, at the same rate, and to the same extent the equiv…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2999-E Demonstration projects
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* § 2999-e. Demonstration projects. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent regulation of the department, the commissioner is authorized and shall select up to five demonstration projects throughout the state, pursuant to a competitive bid or request for proposal process, which have…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2999-EE Increased application of telehealth
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§ 2999-ee. Increased application of telehealth. In order to increase\nthe application of telehealth in behavioral health, oral health,\nmaternity care, care management, services provided in emergency\ndepartments, and services provided to certain high-need populations to\nthe ex…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2999-F Authorizations
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* § 2999-f. Authorizations. 1. The commissioner may contract with projects and provide grants to support projects to the extent funds are appropriated for such purpose. 2. Upon the request of a sponsoring health plan, the commissioner may authorize the participation of the Medic…