Relates to the provision of patient health information and medical records; expands the definition of medical records to include all health related records; prohibits fees for providing certain records.
Amends provisions to improve accessibility of home care services, develop and maintain a qualified workforce, develop a comprehensive public education program and approve rates of reimbursement under medicaid for home care services that support the provision of those services.
Enacts the "Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Act"; provides findings for evidence-based and evidence-informed health programs from hospital-based and community-based programs.
Prohibits approved organizations providing coverage under the child health insurance plan from discriminating against health care providers which do not participate in the organization's health care network.
Allows a nursing home patient, or his or her representative, to install, operate and maintain, at his or her own expense, an electronic monitoring device in his or her room.
Establishes temporary health care staffing agencies to assist qualified health care professionals to find temporary employment at health care facilities.
Requires enhanced federal medical assistance percentage funds be directly shared with the counties and the city of New York; requires the comptroller examine and audit all funds received from the enhanced federal medical assistance percentage and the distributions made to counties and the city of New York.
Ensures that the state implements federal conflict of interest requirements in a manner that ensures limited disruption of services to persons enrolled in certain Medicaid traumatic brain injury and nursing home transition and diversion waiver programs.
Provides that substituted consent by a guardian, health care proxy, or other third party shall not authorize a procedure resulting in sterilization in the absence of the informed consent of the person being sterilized.