Assembly Bill A7214

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides that health care plan participation by physicians shall be reported, for purposes of physician profiles, by the health care plans

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Current Bill Status Via S3472 - Passed Assembly


  • 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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2023-A7214 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3472
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2995-a, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S4633
2019-2020: S1789
2021-2022: A8467, S5487

2023-A7214 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that health care plan participation by physicians shall be reported, for purposes of physician profiles, by the health care plans; requires physicians to periodically submit information for his or her physician profile within 6 months of his or her triennial re-registration to practice; authorizes physicians to designate a designee to submit his or her information for the physician profile.

2023-A7214 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7214
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 15, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to submission of
   information to the department of health for physician profiles
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraph  (q)  of subdivision 1 of section 2995-a of the
 public health law, as added by chapter 542  of  the  laws  of  2000,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (q)  health  care plans with which the licensee has contracts, employ-
 ment, or other affiliation; PROVIDED THAT THE REPORTING OF SUCH INFORMA-
 TION SHALL NOT BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF  THE  PHYSICIAN,  BUT  SHALL  BE
 INCLUDED  AND  UPDATED  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT  UTILIZING  PROVIDER NETWORK
 PARTICIPATION INFORMATION, OR  OTHER  RELIABLE  SOURCES  OF  INFORMATION
 SUBMITTED BY HEALTH CARE PLANS.
   §  2.  Subdivision  4  of  section 2995-a of the public health law, as
 amended by section 3 of part A of chapter 57 of the  laws  of  2015,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   4. Each physician shall periodically report to the department on forms
 and in the time and manner required by the commissioner any other infor-
 mation  as is required by the department for the development of profiles
 under this section which is  not  otherwise  reasonably  obtainable.  In
 addition  to  such  periodic reports and providing the same information,
 each physician shall update his or her profile  information  within  the
 six  months  prior to the [expiration date of such physician's registra-
 tion period] SUBMISSION OF THE RE-REGISTRATION APPLICATION, as a  condi-
 tion of registration renewal under article one hundred thirty-one of the
 education  law.  Except  for  optional  information provided, physicians
 shall notify the department of any change  in  the  profile  information
 within thirty days of such change.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06144-01-3
 A. 7214                             2
              

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