Relates to reimbursement for coroner and medical examiner fees from the county where the decedent resided.
Relates to reimbursement for coroner and medical examiner fees from the county where the decedent resided.
Relates to reimbursement for coroner and medical examiner fees from the county where the decedent resided.
Establishes the office of special investigation for work-related fatalities; provides direction for coroners and medical examiners when dealing with such fatalities.
CORONERS & MEDICAL EXAMINERS
Reestablishes the office of coroner in the county of Oswego; removes the powers and duties of coroners from the district attorney in such county; allows Oswego County to appoint a coroner.
Coroners and medical examiners.
Enacts the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act; requires the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner, to conduct a mental health assessment when a death occurs in such person's jurisdiction; requires death certificates list an underlying mental illness as the cause of death when a person commits suicide; requires life insurance policies to pay upon a suicide which the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner indicated an underlying mental illness as the cause of death.
Relates to educating nursing home residents about the role of legal counsel in applying for Medicaid and Medicare benefits.
Relates to Medicaid reimbursement rates for private duty nursing; requires DOH to publish a private duty rate schedule.