Regulates the provision of observation services by general hospitals. / Sponsor: Gottfried Committee:

Relates to accountable care organizations. / Sponsor: Gottfried Committee:

Relates to certain application and referral forms for health care plans by authorizing the commissioner and superintendent of financial services to adopt regulations for the renewal of credentialing and re-credentialing of newly licensed health care professionals. / Sponsor: Gottfried Committee:

Provides for clarification of the disposition of human remains. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

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. / Sponsor: Gottfried Committee:

Provides for additional remedies for patients' private right of actions in residential health care facilities; allows class actions by patients, patient's legal representative, or such patient's estate. / 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 Committee:

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. / Sponsor: Gottfried Committee:

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. / Sponsor: Gottfried Committee:

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. / Sponsor: Gottfried Committee:

Authorizes the commissioner of health to develop and administer training programs for coroners, coroners' 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. / Sponsor: Gottfried Committee:

Relates to the definition of a clinical peer reviewer by clarifying that such term shall be applicable for the entire utilization review and external appeal article and means either a physician or a health care professional with certain qualifications. / Sponsor: Gottfried 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 Committee:

Relates to rights of residents of adult care facilities. / Sponsor: Gottfried Committee:

Relates to the appointment of a temporary operator or voluntary receiver of 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 Committee:

Relates to the distribution of funds to support the provision of general hospital indigent care. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

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. / Sponsor: Gottfried Committee:

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. / Sponsor: Gottfried Committee:

Relates to the performance of medical services by physician assistants; permits a physician to employ and supervise up to six physician assistants. / Sponsor: Gottfried Committee: