New York Public Health Law Title 1 - HEALTH INFORMATION

• 2995 - Structure and Definitions.
  1. Structure. * (a) The department shall undertake an initiative for the purposes of increasing the information available to patients about health care providers and...
• 2995-a - Physician Profiles.
  1. The department shall collect the following information and create individual profiles on licensees subject to the authority of the office of professional medical conduct,...
• 2995-b - Hospital Report Cards.
  1. Collection. The department shall collect the following hospital data for dissemination to inform consumer decisionmaking via a statewide health information system: (a) Utilization and...
• 2995-c - Health Care Plan and Preferred Provider Organization Data.
  1. Collection. The department shall collect for dissemination via a statewide health information system, any health care plan and preferred provider organization data collected for...
• 2995-d - Further Study of Other Health Care Practitioner Data.
  The department shall: 1. Identify the classes of health care practitioners licensed, certified or registered pursuant to title eight of the education law, concerning whom...
• 2996 - Study of Physician Credentialing.
  1. The department shall examine the feasibility of establishing a clearinghouse for credentialing information to reduce the burden for physicians required to submit credentials to...
• 2997 - Patient Privacy.
  1. The department shall examine state laws protecting the privacy of individual patient data, and determine the necessity of supplementing existing protections. 2. The department...
• 2997-a - Public Access.
  Nothing in this title shall abridge public access to information currently available or permitted by any other provision or rule of law. Nothing in this...
• 2997-b - Pamphlet of Department Programs.
  The commissioner shall develop and transmit to physicians in the state a pamphlet describing a variety of department programs and initiatives, including but not limited...
• 2997-c - Palliative Care Patient Information.
  1. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (a) "Appropriate" means consistent...
• 2997-d - Hospital, Nursing Home, Home Care, Special Needs Assisted Living Residences and Enhanced Assisted Living Residences Palliative Care Support.
  1. (a) "Palliative care" means health care treatment, including interdisciplinary end-of-life care, and consultation with patients and family members, to prevent or relieve pain and...
• 2997-e - Provision of Contact Information Relating to Long Term Care.
  Whenever a health care provider or practitioner makes a recommendation regarding the necessity of long term care services or a referral for the receipt of...
• 2997-f - Provision of Information Relating to Aging Services.
  Whenever a hospital is discharging an individual aged sixty years of age or older, the hospital's discharge coordinator shall provide such individual with a copy...

Last modified: February 3, 2019