Assembly Bill A11240

Signed By Governor
2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires reporting of newborn hearing screening results and data to the department of health

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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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2009-A11240 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7827
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง2500-g & 2168, Pub Health L

2009-A11240 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires reporting of newborn hearing screening results and data to the department of health.

2009-A11240 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  11240

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 25, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SKARTADOS,  GOTTFRIED  -- (at request of the
  Department of Health) -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
  Health

AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to newborn hearing
  screening results

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

  Section  1. Section 2500-g of the public health law, as added by chap-
ter 585 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  S 2500-g. Newborn INFANT hearing screening. 1. The commissioner shall,
within the amounts  appropriated  therefor,  and  in  consultation  with
health  care  providers or their representatives, establish a program to
screen newborn infants for hearing problems. This program shall incorpo-
rate consensus medical guidelines and  protocols,  reflecting  the  most
cost-effective methods for detecting hearing problems as early as possi-
ble in an infant's life. The program shall provide for follow-up screen-
ing  including  referrals for screening or care. Such program shall also
provide for the reimbursement of health care providers  performing  such
services under the program.
  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty of the administrative officer[,] or other
designated person[,] at each [institution] FACILITY LICENSED PURSUANT TO
ARTICLE TWENTY-EIGHT OF THIS CHAPTER  caring  for  newborn  infants,  to
either administer [such a program or] A HEARING SCREENING UPON EACH SUCH
NEWBORN  INFANT  OR,  IF THE FACILITY IS NOT REASONABLY ABLE TO SCREEN A
NEWBORN INFANT PRIOR TO DISCHARGE, provide a referral for the  [patient]
NEWBORN  INFANT  to  obtain the service following discharge.  FACILITIES
SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS  SECTION  THAT  ADMINISTER  A  NEWBORN
INFANT  HEARING SCREENING SHALL REPORT TO THE DEPARTMENT IN A MANNER AND
FORMAT REQUIRED BY THE COMMISSIONER:
  (A) THE RESULTS OF EACH NEWBORN INFANT HEARING SCREENING PERFORMED;
  (B) INSTANCES IN WHICH A  NEWBORN  INFANT  HEARING  SCREENING  IS  NOT
PERFORMED  ON A NEWBORN INFANT BEFORE SUCH INFANT IS DISCHARGED FROM THE
FACILITY; AND

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15707-04-0
              

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