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The NPA supports all legislation that promotes access to quality, affordable healthcare for patients in New York State. Specific legislation that the NPA will sponsor and support in 2010 includes the following:
  
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  • A.765 (Gottfried)/S.2948 (Montgomery)- Patient Access & Advocacy Act - Removal of Statutory Collaboration & Reimbursement
  • A.6651 (Gottfried)/S4490 (Duane) - Reimbursement Assurance to assure health plans do not deny reimbursement for services rendered by nurse practitioners acting within their lawful scope 
  • A.7877 (Gottfried)/S4491 (Duane) - Access Protection requires health coverage plans to include in provider networks certified nurse practitioners as primary health care providers
  • A.3704 (John)/S.3908 (Duane) - NP Worker's Compensation Access Act authorizing NPs to fully participate within and be reimbursed under the worker's compensation program in NYS as a legislative study bill
  • A.2028-A (John)/S.2969 (Montgomery) - Death Certificate Bill authorizing NPs to sign death certificates
  • A.1719 (Gottfried)/S.2947-A (Hannon) - Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) authorizing NPs to issue orders not to resuscitate
  • A.6654 (Gottfried)/S.4070 (Montgomery) - Immunization Bill to add NPs to the category of persons legally qualified to certify that an immunization required by section 2164 of the public health law may be detrimental to a child's health
  • A.10218A (Gottfried) - Global Signature Bill - An act to amend the education law, in relations to authorizing NPs to perfom functions in conjunction with diagnosing an illness consistent with a NPs scope of practice
  • A.11655 (Schroeder) - Loan Repayment - Establishes the nurse practitioner loan repayment program; authorizes the commissioner to award loan repayment awards to certain nurse practitioners
  • A.11650 (Ortiz) - Mental Health - Authorizes nurse practitioners to admit a patient to an inpatient mental health unti on a voluntary or involuntary basis.

Bills that the NPA is Monitoring:

  • A.6848 (Canestrari) - Collaborative Drug Management Therapy - Authorizes pharmacists to perform colalborative drug therapy management with physicians or Nurse Practitioners in certain settings.
  • A.9917 (Gottfried)/S.6956 (Duane) - An act to amend the public health law, in relation to medical home multipayor programs - To help primary care providers meet "medical home" standards to improve outcomes and contain costs, by encouraging all third-party payers to adequately reimburse primary care provdiers who meet those standards.

 

 

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