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                                          381
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
         to establishing the high need primary care  medical  personnel  demon-
         stration program; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon
         expiration thereof
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
    2  the  "high  need  primary  care  medical personnel demonstration program
    3  act".
    4    S 2. Article 2 of the public health law is amended  by  adding  a  new
    5  title 7 to read as follows:
    6                                  TITLE VII
    7                        HIGH NEED PRIMARY CARE MEDICAL
    8                            PERSONNEL DEMONSTRATION
    9                                    PROGRAM
   10  SECTION 267. HIGH  NEED  PRIMARY  CARE  MEDICAL  PERSONNEL DEMONSTRATION
   11                 PROGRAM.
   12    S 267. HIGH NEED PRIMARY CARE MEDICAL PERSONNEL DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.
   13  1. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ESTABLISH  A  HIGH  NEED  PRIMARY  CARE  MEDICAL
   14  PERSONNEL  DEMONSTRATION  PROGRAM.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL DESIGNATE SIX
   15  LOCATIONS AT WHICH SUCH PROGRAM SHALL BE CONDUCTED.
   16    (A) THE LOCATIONS OF THE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM SHALL BE SELECTED BASED
   17  UPON THE FOLLOWING:
   18    (1) THE AMOUNT OF  PRIMARY  CARE  MEDICAL  SERVICES  PROVIDED  AT  THE
   19  LOCATION APPLYING FOR DESIGNATION;
   20    (2)  THE PERCENTAGE OF PATIENTS RECEIVING CARE THROUGH MEDICAL ASSIST-
   21  ANCE;
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    (3) THE CAPACITY OF THE APPLICANT LOCATION TO HOST PHYSICIANS LICENSED
    2  PURSUANT TO SECTION SIXTY-FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE OF THE EDUCATION LAW;
    3  AND
    4    (4)  THE  BENEFIT  TO  THE  APPROPRIATE  HIGH  NEED  COMMUNITY  IN THE
    5  PROVISION OF PRIMARY CARE MEDICAL PERSONNEL.
    6    (B) THE LOCATIONS OF THE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM SHALL BE AS FOLLOWS:
    7    (1) TWO SHALL BE IN RURAL AREAS, AS  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF
    8  SECTION TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE OF THIS CHAPTER;
    9    (2)  TWO  SHALL  BE IN CITIES HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE HUNDRED FIFTY
   10  THOUSAND OR MORE; AND
   11    (3) TWO SHALL BE IN CITIES HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE.
   12    2. ON OR BEFORE APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN, THE  COMMISSIONER
   13  SHALL  SUBMIT  A  REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR, THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE
   14  SENATE, THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, THE MINORITY LEADER OF  THE  SENATE
   15  AND  THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE ASSEMBLY. SUCH REPORT SHALL INCLUDE, BUT
   16  NOT BE LIMITED TO, A STATISTICAL  ANALYSIS  OF  THE  CHANGES  IN  HEALTH
   17  RESULTS  FOR PATIENTS AT DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM LOCATIONS, AND THE HOSPI-
   18  TALIZATION RATES, CHRONIC ILLNESSES AND VITAL STATISTICS THEREOF.
   19    3.  ALL  DEMONSTRATION  PROGRAM  LOCATIONS  SHALL  UTILIZE  PHYSICIANS
   20  LICENSED  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  SIXTY-FIVE  HUNDRED  TWENTY-FIVE OF THE
   21  EDUCATION LAW.
   22    S 3. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 6525 of  the  education  law,  as
   23  added  by  chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, paragraph 1 of subdivision 1
   24  as amended by chapter 133 of the laws of 1982, are amended  to  read  as
   25  follows:
   26    1.  Eligibility: The following persons shall be eligible for a limited
   27  permit:
   28    (1) A person who fulfills all requirements for a license as  a  physi-
   29  cian  except those relating to the examination and citizenship or perma-
   30  nent residence in the United States;
   31    (2) A foreign physician who holds  a  standard  certificate  from  the
   32  educational  council  for foreign medical graduates or who has passed an
   33  examination satisfactory to the state board for medicine and in  accord-
   34  ance with the commissioner's regulations; [or]
   35    (3)  A foreign physician or a foreign intern who is in this country on
   36  a non-immigration visa for the continuation of medical  study,  pursuant
   37  to  the  exchange  student  program  of  the United States department of
   38  state[.]; OR
   39    (4) A PERSON WHO  GRADUATES  FROM  A  REGENTS,  LIAISON  COMMITTEE  ON
   40  MEDICAL EDUCATION OR AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION ACCREDITED MEDICAL
   41  PROGRAM,  OR  A  PERSON WHO GRADUATES FROM ANY OTHER MEDICAL PROGRAM WHO
   42  HAS PASSED ELEVEN REQUISITE STEPS OR PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES  MEDICAL
   43  LICENSING EXAMINATION OR NATIONAL BOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL EXAMINERS
   44  EXAMINATION,  WHERE  SUCH  A  PERSON  PRACTICES AT A MEDICAL FACILITY OR
   45  PRACTICE DESIGNATED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PURSUANT TO SECTION  TWO
   46  HUNDRED SIXTY-SEVEN OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
   47    2.  Limit  of  practice.  A  permittee shall be authorized to practice
   48  medicine only under the supervision of a licensed physician and only  in
   49  a  public,  voluntary[,] or proprietary hospital, OR PURSUANT TO SECTION
   50  TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-SEVEN OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
   51    S 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   52  have become a law, and shall expire and be deemed repealed July 1, 2017.