A 3031 -
Pretlow
Coverage for Human Leukocyte Antigen Testing
01/23/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE.
Amends the Insurance Law; requires certain health insurance policies and contracts to provide coverage for human leukocyte antigen testing, also referred to as histocompatable locus antigen testing, for A, B, and DR antigens, for utilization in tissu...
A 3505 -
Pretlow
Health Maintenance Organization Which Denies Claim
01/28/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE.
Directs health maintenance organization which denies claim due to absence of medical necessity to inform insured as to preferred alternative treatment, or provide the insured with a statement as to the past ineffectiveness of the requested procedure ...
A 3707 -
Pretlow
Reimbursement for Ambulance Services
01/28/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE.
Amends the Insurance Law; relates to reimbursement for ambulance services....
A 3709 -
Pretlow
Certified or Registered Dietitians
01/28/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE.
Amends the Insurance Law; authorizes certified or registered dietitians and certified nutritionists as providers for direct reimbursement when a policy provides coverage for nutrition and dietetic services and such services are provided pursuant to a...
A 3910 -
Pretlow
Licensed Clinical Social Workers
01/29/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION.
Permits licensed clinical social workers, licensed creative arts therapists, licensed marriage and family therapists, licensed mental health counselors and licensed psychoanalysts to form a single corporate structure as a means to promoting inter-pro...
A 3923 -
Pretlow
Retired and Current School Board Members
01/29/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES.
Amends the Civil Service Law; allows retired and current school board members who have served for ten years to receive state health insurance benefits pursuant to section 163 of the civil service law....
A 3929 -
Pretlow
Insurance Company Joint Checks for Payment to Insured
01/29/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE.
Requires insurance companies to issue joint checks for payment to an insured and a health care provider in certain circumstances....
A 3933 -
Pretlow
Distinctive Plate for Licensed Mental Health Counselors
01/29/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on TRANSPORTATION.
Creates a distinctive plate for New York state licensed mental health counselors....
A 3953 -
Pretlow
Practice of Biofeedback Therapy
01/30/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION.
Provides for the licensing and regulation of the practice of biofeedback therapy; defines practice of biofeedback therapy; establishes state board of biofeedback therapy and the requirements to qualify for a license as a biofeedback therapist....
A 3959 -
Pretlow
Excluded Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Hospitals
01/30/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH.
Amends the Public Health Law; includes certain facilities treated as excluded physical medicine rehabilitation hospitals within the definition of inpatient care services for purposes of providing child health insurance plan coverage....
A 3966 -
Pretlow
Definition of Youth Shelter
01/30/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on EDUCATION.
Amends the Education Law; removes certain residential programs, residential facilities and child care institutions from the definition of the term "youth shelter" for purposes of the education of persons in youth shelters....
A 3967 -
Pretlow
Unspent Funds From Certain Scholarship Program
01/30/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION.
Amends the Education Law; transfers any unspent funds from the regents health care professional opportunity scholarship program to the regents physician loan forgiveness program and provides direction to distribute these funds to meet the same purpos...
A 3969 -
Pretlow
Option of DNA Testing for Newborns
01/30/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH.
Requires hospitals to provide parents of newborns with the option to have a DNA test performed on their child or have a blood sample taken from the child and preserved for future DNA testing....
A 4038 -
Pretlow
Accident and Health Insurance Policies
01/30/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE.
Amends the Insurance Law; requires accident and health insurance policies to cover the cost of genetic testing of persons with a family history of cancer when the attending physician determines such person has a significant risk thereof....
A 4039 -
Pretlow
Empire State Professional Nursing Scholarship Program
01/30/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION.
Establishes the empire state professional nursing scholarship program to provide financial support to applicants to enter or continue in a registered nurse educational program and who agree to deliver nursing care in a specialty, setting or designate...
A 4045 -
Pretlow
Coverage Under the Child Health Insurance Plan
01/30/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH.
Amends the Public Health Law; 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....
A 4047 -
Pretlow
Kidney Dialysis Patient Care Technicians
01/30/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH.
Establishes training and registration requirements for kidney dialysis patient care technicians....
A 4049 -
Pretlow
Mandatory Continuing Education for Social Workers
02/12/2013 - Amended in ASSEMBLY Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION.
Relates to mandatory continuing education for social workers....
A 4050 -
Pretlow
Award of Regents Scholarships and Loan Forgiveness
01/30/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION.
Amends the Education Law; provides for the award of regents scholarships and loan forgiveness for dentists and podiatrists on the same terms as physicians and dentists....
A 4237 -
Pretlow
Former Outpatients of Mental Health Facilities
02/01/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on MENTAL HEALTH.
Amends the Mental Hygiene Law; authorizes former outpatients of mental health facilities to request a court of competent jurisdiction to render an order to have their Files sealed when more than ten years have elapsed since the last treatment in such...
A 4238 -
Pretlow
Coverage for Diagnostic Testing of Ovarian Cancer
02/01/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE.
Amends the Insurance Law; provides that every health insurance policy which provides coverage for hospital, surgical or medical care shall provide coverage for the standard diagnostic testing for ovarian cancer upon the recommendation of a physician;...
A 4239 -
Pretlow
Health Care Consumer and Provider Protection Act
02/01/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on INSURANCE.
Relates to the NYS Health Care Consumer and Provider Protection and Equity Act....
A 5299 -
Pretlow
Mental Health Care and Treatment of Injured Employees
06/12/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on CODES.
Authorizes the mental health care and treatment of injured employees by licensed clinical social workers under the workers' compensation program....
A 6233 -
Pretlow
Reports of Risk or Harm by Mental Health Professionals
05/09/2013 - Amended in ASSEMBLY Committee on MENTAL HEALTH.
Relates to reports of substantial risk or threat of harm by mental health professionals....
A 6703 -
Pretlow
Mandatory Continuing Education for Social Workers
06/10/2013 - To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.
Relates to mandatory continuing education for social workers....
A 7915 -
Pretlow
Community College Bachelor Degree Program in Nursing
06/10/2013 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION.
Amends the Education Law; authorizes community colleges offering an associates degree program in nursing to offer a four-year bachelor degree program in nursing....
A 814 -
Pretlow
Podiatric Scope of Practice
05/02/2013 - Chapter No. 23
Relates to the podiatric scope of practice; requires a study to determine if podiatrists profiles should be made available to the public who have been issued a privilege to perform specified surgery; provides the procedures for the making of such pro...