Requires a verification organization to declare each service or item to be verified or unverified within thirty days of receiving all required supporting documentation from a participating provider.
Includes ambulatory surgery centers established exclusively to create and maintain vascular access necessary to dialyze patients with end stage renal disease as part of diagnostic or treatment centers to provide end stage renal disease services.
Enacts the "Endoscope Reform Act"; requires the commissioner of health to promulgate rules and regulations to govern the practice of all upper endoscopic procedures and to prescribe an upper endoscopic patient's bill of rights.
Enacts the "Shepherd Patterson law"; requires a physician who treats a minor patient with a medical condition that may cause a disability to provide certain educational information to such patient's parents or guardians indicating such minor is entitled to a free and appropriate public education as defined under section five hundred four of the federal rehabilitation act of nineteen hundred seventy-three; makes related provisions.
Establishes a reproductive health services training and education grant program to ensure health care providers receive adequate training in abortion care.
Permits the use of monies from the community health care revolving capital fund to enable participating borrowers to operate a financially and operationally sustainable practice.
Enacts the tobacco product waste reduction act prohibiting the sale or offering for sale of cigarettes utilizing single-use filters and single-use electronic cigarettes.
Relates to the establishment of special districts for general ambulance services in any county, city, town or village located within the Adirondack park.
Directs the commissioner of health to make recommendations relating to increasing certain ambulatory patient group reimbursement rates and certain reimbursement rates for patient health care services provided by physicians in rural and underserved areas.
Expands the emergency medical technician re-certification demonstration program throughout the state; extends the length of such re-certification from five years to seven years.
Establishes a quality incentive program for managed care providers that is distributed based on managed care providers' performance in meeting quality objectives.