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		<result type="bill" id="A551-2011" title="Subjects nursing homes not providing basic standards of care to nursing home diversion" 
		 summary="Subjects nursing homes not providing basic standards of care for a period of at least forty-eight consecutive hours to nursing home diversion; requires such home to immediately notify the department of that fact and the reasons for it; sets forth diversion consequences and provisions for termination of diversion; defines basic standards of care." billno="A551-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A565-2011" title="Relates to death and felony crime reports in certain adult care facilities" 
		 summary="Relates to death and felony crime reports in certain adult care facilities." billno="A565-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A575-2011" title="Relates to certain application and referral forms for health care plans" 
		 summary="Relates to certain application and referral forms for health care plans by authorizing the commissioner and superintendent of insurance to adopt regulations for the renewal of credentialing and re-credentialing of newly licensed health care professionals." billno="A575-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A576-2011" title="Relates to medicaid payment for co-payments due under Medicare Part D" 
		 summary="Relates to medicaid payment for co-payments due under Medicare Part D; authorizes the commissioner of health to create a system to incorporate co-payments billed to a recipient under Medicare Part D towards the recipient&apos;s total annual co-payments under medical assistance." billno="A576-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A577-2011" title="Authorizes a general hospital to identify and use immediate measures to move admitted patients from emergency departments within four hours of being admitted" 
		 summary="Authorizes a general hospital to identify and use immediate measures to move admitted patients from emergency departments within four hours of being admitted; provides that every general hospital shall develop planning to prevent the diversion of patients to other hospitals and the maintenance of admitted patients within emergency departments for more than four hours; stipulates that such patients should be moved to alternative appropriate locations in the hospital; directs general hospitals to plan to prevent diversion of patients to other general hospitals; directs the commissioner of health to perform periodic inspections to ensure compliance; provides for reporting and investigation of violations. admitted patients moved to alternative appropriate locations in the hospital; directs general hospitals to plan to prevent diversion of patients to other general hospitals; directs the commissioner of health to perform periodic inspections to ensure compliance; provides for reporting and investigation of violations." billno="A577-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A589-2011" title="Authorizes the commissioner of correctional services to develop programs in correctional facilities to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases" 
		 summary="Authorizes the commissioner of correctional services, in consultation with the commissioner of health, to develop and implement programs in every correctional facility to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV among correctional employees and inmates." billno="A589-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A590-2011" title="Prohibits disclosure of testimony of a party to a health care quality assurance or peer review proceeding" 
		 summary="Prohibits the disclosure and discovery of the testimony of a party to a health care quality assurance or peer review proceeding; further adds the failure to cooperate and participate in the quality assurance, reporting, activities, requirements and procedures covered under such discovery to the definition of professional misconduct." billno="A590-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A591-2011" title="Provides for clarification of the disposition of human remains" 
		 summary="Provides for clarification of the disposition of human remains." billno="A591-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A592-2011" title="Provides protections to parents who decline to have their children immunized on the basis of religious beliefs" 
		 summary="Provides protections to parents who decline to have their children immunized on the basis of religious beliefs; allows a parent to submit an affidavit stating that the parent, parents or guardian hold genuine and sincere religious beliefs." billno="A592-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A593-2011" title="Extends the protections of the medical exemption from mandatory immunizations for students" 
		 summary="Extends the protections of the medical exemption from mandatory immunizations for students to ensure deference to the professional assessments of physicians and nurse practitioners in the care of their individual patients." billno="A593-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A594-2011" title="Relates to certain prohibitions in contracts or agreements by health maintenance organizations" 
		 summary="Relates to certain prohibitions in contracts or agreements by health maintenance organizations; prohibits clauses which entitle reimbursement at the lowest price or rate; prohibits contracts which restrict referral of patients based solely upon a health care provider&apos;s status with a managed care product; prohibits disclosure of an enrollee&apos;s diagnosis on a prescription as a condition for authorizing coverage for payment or dispensing of a prescription; and prohibits contracts which allow for the substitution of a pharmaceutical drug or agent by any person other than the prescribing health care professional." billno="A594-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A595-2011" title="Relates to rights of residents of adult care facilities" 
		 summary="Relates to rights of residents of adult care facilities." billno="A595-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A654-2011" title="Authorizes nurse practitioners to certify that an immunization may be detrimental to a child&apos;s health" 
		 summary="Authorizes nurse practitioners to certify that an immunization may be detrimental to a child&apos;s health." billno="A654-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A655-2011" title="Requires health care providers to disclose errors in diagnosis, treatment, services that provider knows has caused substantial harm or significant risk thereof" 
		 summary="Requires health care providers (i.e., an entity licensed/certified under certain articles of the public health law or the mental hygiene law, a health care practitioner licensed/registered/certified under title eight of the education law, or a provider of pharmaceutical products/services or durable medical equipment) to disclose errors in diagnosis, treatment or other services that the provider knows has caused substantial harm or significant risk of substantial harm; provides there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the provider knew of the error and the harm or risk of harm if, under the circumstances, the provider reasonably should have had knowledge thereof; provides such disclosure shall be made within a reasonable period of time and be reasonably understandable." billno="A655-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A656-2011" title="Authorizes the commissioner of health to develop and administer training programs for coroners, coroners&apos; physicians and medical examiners" 
		 summary="Authorizes the commissioner of health to develop and administer training programs for coroners, coroners&apos; physicians and medical examiners; provides for the making of regulations for minimum qualifications, minimum training and continuing education requirements, procedures and standards for pronouncing deaths and procedures and standards for investigating deaths; further requires the commissioner to send a copy to certain officers of the proposed regulations at least three months before formally proposing such regulation; makes an exemption for emergency rulemaking." billno="A656-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A657-2011" title="Provides for additional remedies for patients&apos; private right of actions in residential health care facilities" 
		 summary="Provides for additional remedies for patients&apos; private right of actions in residential health care facilities; allows class actions by patients, patient&apos;s legal representative, or such patient&apos;s estate." billno="A657-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A658-2011" title="Relates to improving quality of certain adult care facilities" 
		 summary="Relates to improving quality of certain adult care facilities." billno="A658-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A659-2011" title="Regulates the scope, manner and performance of review of claims by utilization review agents" 
		 summary="Regulates the scope, manner and performance of review of claims by utilization review agents; provides that denial of coverage for emergency services is not based solely on final diagnosis." billno="A659-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A660-2011" title="Provides person/entity with authority to operate a hospital shall be subject to approval by public health and health planning council for establishment of hospital and other actions" 
		 summary="Makes various provisions regarding establishment of a hospital: provides that any person and various other listed entities (i.e., partnership, company, stockholder, member, corporation or other entity) with authority to operate a hospital, shall be subject to approval for establishment by the public health council (unless otherwise authorized to operate a hospital without such establishment approval); provides that any assignment or delegation of any authority to operate a hospital shall be subject to approval for establishment by the council (with certain specified exceptions); specifies circumstance under which a person, partnership, company, etc. shall be deemed to have authority to operate a hospital subject to approval for establishment by the council (with certain specified exceptions); specifies circumstances under which a person, partnership, company, etc. shall be deemed to have authority to operate a hospital (i.e., if it has decision-making authority over listed matters); provides that any amendment to a mission statement of a hospital shall be subject to review by the council which shall issue an advisory opinion regarding the impact thereof; requires voluntary non-profit general hospital mission statement to identify the mission and philosophy of the hospital as it relates to the provision of all health care services and requires proposed amendments thereto to be submitted to the public health council and health commissioner at least 90 days prior to adoption for review." billno="A660-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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		<result type="bill" id="A661-2011" title="Provides Medicaid reimbursement for interpretation services provided by hospital inpatient and outpatient departments" 
		 summary="Provides Medicaid reimbursement for interpretation services provided by hospital inpatient, outpatient and emergency department settings and in diagnostic treatment centers; provides further that time frames for notice, approval or certification of rates of payment and to the requirement of prior notice of rates of payment are suspended deemed without any force and effect from and after February 1, for such rates effective for the period April 1 through March 31 in the initial year of implementation." billno="A661-2011" year="2011" sponsor="Gottfried (MS)" committee=""
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