Provides for the exclusion of certain costs associated with home health care and the formula for calculating state reimbursements to such programs. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Establishes the clinical trial access and education fund to provide grants to eligible applicants to provide certain services for patients with life-threatening or disabling conditions or diseases. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Adds certain school based health services (i.e., services provided by certain clinics which provide primary health care services within an elementary or secondary public school setting) to the list of services which need not be provided by a managed care program but which shall be continued to be provided outside of managed care programs in accordance with applicable reimbursement methodologies. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Requires clinical education in pain management; requires every physician, physician assistant and specialist assistant practicing in the state to complete course work and training regarding pain management every four years; further establishes an advisory committee on pain management education. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Provides that an affirmation of a health care practitioner may be served or filed in an action in lieu of and with same force and effect as an affidavit (changes the current reference in existing provisions from "physician, osteopath or dentist" to "health care practitioner"). / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Establishes an age-appropriate sex education grant program through the department of health to be a comprehensive age-appropriate program conducted by an eligible applicant; authorizes the commissioner to determine certain topics of instruction and makes provisions for the application of grants. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Includes certain written false statements within perjury where the instrument bears a notice that false statements are punishable. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Relates to improving quality of certain adult care facilities. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Enacts requirements relating to the safe handling of prescription drug samples by certain health care professionals; requires maintenance of certain records and information regarding samples received and distributed including expiration dates. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Provides for pharmacy benefit management and the procurement of prescription drugs to be dispensed to patients, or the administration or management of prescription drug benefits; sets forth definitions; provides for funds received by a pharmacy benefit manager to be received by the pharmacy in trust for the health plan or provider and provides for accountability of such funds. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Requires every general hospital to have a community advisory board. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Defines the terms electronic prescription and electronic signature and enacts provisions for their use. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

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. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

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. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

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. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

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. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Relates to the appointment of a temporary operator or voluntary receiver of adult care facilities. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Provides limitations on use of evidence obtained in connection with a person seeking or receiving health care for a drug overdose. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Relates to parentage of children born by medically-assisted reproduction; alters the term "artificial insemination" to be medically-assisted reproduction and defines such term to mean artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, embryo transfer and gamete intrafallopian transfer; provides for the donor to be treated as if they were not the natural father or mother of the child conceived; and further defines child and donor. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Allows for reimbursement of transportation costs for emergency care without prior authorization by the social services official including emergency medical transportation by an ambulance service certified under article 30 of the public health law; and further authorizes the commissioner of health to establish a reimbursement methodology to ensure providers are reimbursed. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee: