Senate Bill S4182

Signed By Governor
2015-2016 Legislative Session

Provides that dentist's offices shall be originating sites for the purposes of telehealth delivery of services

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S4182 - Details

Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2999-cc, Pub Health L

2015-S4182 - Summary

Provides that dentists' offices shall be originating sites for the purposes of telehealth delivery of services.

2015-S4182 - Sponsor Memo

2015-S4182 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4182

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              March 5, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to  amend  the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to  including
  dentist's  offices  as  originating  sites  for purposes of telehealth
  delivery of services

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 2999-cc of the public health law,
as added by a chapter of the laws of 2015, amending  the  public  health
law  and  other laws relating to the telehealth delivery of services, as
proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 2405 and A. 2552-A, is  amended
to read as follows:
  3.  "Originating  site"  means a site at which a patient is located at
the time health care services are delivered to him or her  by  means  of
telehealth.  Originating  sites  shall be limited to facilities licensed
under articles twenty-eight and forty of  this  chapter,  facilities  as
defined  in  subdivision  six of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law,
private physician's OR DENTIST'S offices located within the state of New
York and, when a patient is receiving health care services by  means  of
remote  patient  monitoring,  the  patient's  place of residence located
within the state of New York or other temporary location located  within
or outside the state of New York.
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
manner as a chapter of the laws of 2015, amending the public health  law
and  other  laws  relating  to  the  telehealth delivery of services, as
proposed in legislative bills numbers  S.  2405  and  A.  2552-A,  takes
effect.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09650-01-5

2015-S4182A (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2999-cc, Pub Health L

2015-S4182A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that dentists' offices shall be originating sites for the purposes of telehealth delivery of services.

2015-S4182A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S4182A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 4182--A
    Cal. No. 394

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              March 5, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- reported favora-
  bly from said committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered
  to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place
  in the order of third reading

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health  law,  in  relation to including
  dentist's offices as originating  sites  for  purposes  of  telehealth
  delivery of services

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2999-cc of the public health  law,
as  added  by  chapter  6  of  the  laws  of 2015, is amended to read as
follows:
  3. "Originating site" means a site at which a patient  is  located  at
the  time  health  care services are delivered to him or her by means of
telehealth. Originating sites shall be limited  to  facilities  licensed
under  articles  twenty-eight  and  forty of this chapter, facilities as
defined in subdivision six of section 1.03 of the  mental  hygiene  law,
private physician's OR DENTIST'S offices located within the state of New
York  and,  when a patient is receiving health care services by means of
remote patient monitoring, the  patient's  place  of  residence  located
within  the state of New York or other temporary location located within
or outside the state of New York.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
manner as section 2 of chapter 6 of the laws of 2015 takes effect.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09650-02-5

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