Directs the commissioner of health to establish an opioid addiction treatment and hospital diversion demonstration program.

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A10741-2011 Actions

• Jun 18, 2012: referred to health

A10741-2011 Text

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

                                    10741

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                                June 18, 2012
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cusick) --
    read once and referred to the Committee on Health

  AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  establishing  an
    opioid   addiction  treatment  and  hospital  diversion  demonstration
    program

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


    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
  3309-b to read as follows:

    S 3309-B. OPIOID ADDICTION TREATMENT  AND  HOSPITAL  DIVERSION  DEMON-
  STRATION  PROGRAM.  1. THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE OFFICE
  OF ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES, SHALL,  WITHIN  THE  AMOUNTS
  APPROPRIATED  THEREFOR,  ESTABLISH  AN  OPIOID  ADDICTION  TREATMENT AND
  HOSPITAL DIVERSION DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. THIS PROGRAM SHALL  PROVIDE  A
  NEW  MODEL  OF  DETOXIFICATION AND TRANSITIONAL SERVICES FOR INDIVIDUALS
  SEEKING TO RECOVER FROM OPIOID ADDICTION, THEREBY REDUCING  RELIANCE  ON
  EMERGENCY  ROOM SERVICES. THE PROGRAM SHALL PROVIDE FOR THE TREATMENT OF
  PRESCRIPTION PAIN MEDICATION ADDICTION ON AN OUTPATIENT  OR  NON-MEDICAL
  RESIDENTIAL  SHORT-TERM  STAY BASIS. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH UP
  TO SIX DEMONSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT THE STATE,  AND  AT  MINIMUM  A  DEMON-
  STRATION  SHALL  BE  ESTABLISHED IN EACH OF THE FOLLOWING AREAS: WESTERN
  NEW YORK, CENTRAL NEW YORK, STATEN ISLAND, BROOKLYN AND LONG ISLAND.
    2. NOT LATER THAN TWO YEARS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS  SECTION,
  THE  COMMISSIONER SHALL PROVIDE THE GOVERNOR, THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF
  THE SENATE, THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE  STAND-
  ING  COMMITTEE  ON HEALTH AND THE CHAIR OF THE ASSEMBLY HEALTH COMMITTEE
  WITH A WRITTEN EVALUATION OF THE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. SUCH  EVALUATION
  SHALL  ADDRESS  THE  OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS TREATMENT MODEL AS IT
  RELATES TO PATIENTS, THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY,  HEALTH  CARE  PROVIDERS
  AND  HEALTH  CARE  PAYORS, AND SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE
  EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PROGRAM IN PROVIDING ACCESS TO SERVICES, THE IMPACT
  OF THESE SERVICES, THE ASSOCIATED COSTS SAVINGS, AND WHETHER THE  EXPAN-
  SION OF THIS OR SIMILAR MODELS ARE RECOMMENDED.
    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD15691-01-2