Senate Bill S1727A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to improper practices relating to staff membership or professional privileges of a physician and such physician's board certification

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2023-S1727 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2801-b & 4406-d, Pub Health L; amd §4803, Ins L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7357
2019-2020: S5280
2021-2022: S2116

2023-S1727 - Summary

Relates to improper practices relating to staff membership or professional privileges of a physician and such physician's board certification.

2023-S1727 - Sponsor Memo

2023-S1727 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1727
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the insurance law, in relation
   to improper practices relating to  staff  membership  or  professional
   privileges of a physician and board certification

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2801-b of the public  health  law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  605 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. It shall be an improper practice for the governing body of a hospi-
 tal to refuse to act upon an application for staff membership or profes-
 sional privileges or to deny or withhold from a  physician,  podiatrist,
 optometrist,  dentist  or  licensed  midwife staff membership or profes-
 sional privileges in a hospital, or to exclude  or  expel  a  physician,
 podiatrist,  optometrist, dentist or licensed midwife from staff member-
 ship in a hospital or curtail, terminate or diminish in any way a physi-
 cian's, podiatrist's, optometrist's,  dentist's  or  licensed  midwife's
 professional  privileges  in  a  hospital,  without  stating the reasons
 therefor, or if the reasons stated are unrelated to standards of patient
 care, patient welfare, the objectives of the institution or the  charac-
 ter or competency of the applicant. It shall be an improper practice for
 a  governing  body of a hospital to refuse to act upon an application or
 to deny or to withhold staff membership or professional privileges to  a
 podiatrist  based solely upon a practitioner's category of licensure. IT
 SHALL BE AN IMPROPER PRACTICE FOR A GOVERNING  BODY  OF  A  HOSPITAL  TO
 REFUSE  TO  ACT  UPON  AN  APPLICATION  OR  TO DENY OR TO WITHHOLD STAFF
 MEMBERSHIP OR PROFESSIONAL PRIVILEGES OF A PHYSICIAN WHO WAS  PREVIOUSLY
 BOARD-CERTIFIED  AND  WHO  HAS  NOT MAINTAINED SUCH CERTIFICATION SOLELY
 BECAUSE SUCH PHYSICIAN IS NOT BOARD-CERTIFIED.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01818-01-3
 S. 1727                             2
              

2023-S1727A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2801-b & 4406-d, Pub Health L; amd §4803, Ins L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7357
2019-2020: S5280
2021-2022: S2116

2023-S1727A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to improper practices relating to staff membership or professional privileges of a physician and such physician's board certification.

2023-S1727A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S1727A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1727--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recommitted  to
   the  Committee  on  Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
   committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
   recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the insurance law, in relation
   to  improper  practices  relating  to staff membership or professional
   privileges of a physician and board certification
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 2801-b of the public health law,
 as amended by chapter 605 of the laws of 2008, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1. It shall be an improper practice for the governing body of a hospi-
 tal to refuse to act upon an application for staff membership or profes-
 sional  privileges  or to deny or withhold from a physician, podiatrist,
 optometrist, dentist or licensed midwife  staff  membership  or  profes-
 sional  privileges  in  a  hospital, or to exclude or expel a physician,
 podiatrist, optometrist, dentist or licensed midwife from staff  member-
 ship in a hospital or curtail, terminate or diminish in any way a physi-
 cian's,  podiatrist's,  optometrist's,  dentist's  or licensed midwife's
 professional privileges in  a  hospital,  without  stating  the  reasons
 therefor, or if the reasons stated are unrelated to standards of patient
 care,  patient welfare, the objectives of the institution or the charac-
 ter or competency of the applicant. It shall be an improper practice for
 a governing body of a hospital to refuse to act upon an  application  or
 to  deny or to withhold staff membership or professional privileges to a
 PHYSICIAN, podiatrist, OPTOMETRIST, DENTIST, OR LICENSED  MIDWIFE  based
 solely  upon  a  practitioner's  category  of  licensure. IT SHALL BE AN
 IMPROPER PRACTICE FOR A GOVERNING BODY OF A HOSPITAL TO  REFUSE  TO  ACT
 UPON  AN  APPLICATION  OR  TO  DENY  OR  TO WITHHOLD STAFF MEMBERSHIP OR
 PROFESSIONAL PRIVILEGES OF A PHYSICIAN WHO WAS  PREVIOUSLY  BOARD-CERTI-
 FIED  AND  WHO HAS NOT MAINTAINED SUCH CERTIFICATION SOLELY BECAUSE SUCH
 PHYSICIAN IS NOT BOARD-CERTIFIED.
 
              

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