Senate Bill S4812

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Provides for physician ranking for opiate prescriptions on a county by county basis

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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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2015-S4812 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5167
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3343-a, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A713

2015-S4812 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for physician ranking for opiate prescriptions on a county by county basis.

2015-S4812 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S4812 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4812

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 20, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to physician  ranking
  for opiate prescriptions

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

  Section 1. Section 3343-a of the  public  health  law  is  amended  by
adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
  2-A.  ON  AN ANNUAL BASIS, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE TO ALL AUTHOR-
IZED PRESCRIBERS OF OPIATES, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION B OF  SCHEDULE  I
OF  SECTION  THREE  THOUSAND  THREE  HUNDRED SIX OF THIS ARTICLE, NOTICE
STATING THE NUMBER OF PRESCRIPTIONS FOR OPIATES WRITTEN BY SUCH PRESCRI-
BER DURING THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR, AND  THE  PRESCRIBER'S  NUMERICAL
RANKING AND PERCENTILE RANKING RELATIVE TO OTHER PRESCRIBERS WITHIN EACH
COUNTY WHERE THE PRESCRIBER PRACTICES BASED ON SUCH NUMBER.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07786-01-5

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