§ 12. Violations of health laws or regulations; penalties and injunctions. * 1. (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subdivision, any person who violates, disobeys or disregards any term or provision of this chapter or of any lawful notice, order or regulation pursuant thereto for which a civil penalty is […]
* § 18. Access to patient information. 1. Definitions. For the purpose of this section: (a) “Committee” means a medical access review committee appointed pursuant to subdivision four of this section. (b) “Health care provider” or “provider” means a “health care facility” or a “health care practitioner” as defined by this subdivision. (c) “Health care […]
§ 18-a. Disclosure of information. 1. Each health care professional licensed, registered or certified pursuant to title eight of the education law shall, upon request, provide to his or her patient or prospective patient the following: (a) information related to the health care professional’s educational background, experience, training, specialty, and board certification, if applicable; (b) […]
§ 18-b. Procedures in the course of education or training; consent. In the case of any health care procedure or examination, the fact that it is performed in the course of education or training shall not diminish the requirement for informed consent for the procedure or examination.
* § 18. Registration and notification of boards of directors or trustees of certain voluntary, not-for-profit facilities or corporations. 1. Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation, the executive director, chairperson or president of a voluntary, not-for-profit corporation or facility which is subject to the jurisdiction of the department shall furnish annually to the commissioner […]
§ 19. Reasonable charges for medicare beneficiaries. 1. No physician licensed under article one hundred thirty-one of the education law shall charge from a beneficiary of health insurance under title XVIII of the federal social security act (medicare) any amount in excess of the following limitations: (a) Effective January first, nineteen hundred ninety-one, a physician’s […]
§ 20. Accelerated death benefits. 1. For purposes of this section, “health care facility” means a hospital and residential health care facility as defined in article twenty-eight of this chapter, a home care services agency as defined in article thirty-six of this chapter, a hospice as defined in article forty of this chapter, and a […]
§ 22. Health-related legal services program. 1. As used in this section, “health-related legal services program” means a program that is a collaboration between health care service providers and legal services programs to provide on site legal services without charge to assist, on a voluntary basis, income eligible patients and their families to resolve legal […]
§ 23. Claim forms. A non-participating physician shall include a claim form for a third-party payor with a patient bill for health care services, other than a bill for the patient’s co-payment, coinsurance or deductible.
§ 24. Disclosure. 1. A health care professional, or a group practice of health care professionals, a diagnostic and treatment center or a health center defined under 42 U.S.C. § 254b on behalf of health care professionals rendering services at the group practice, diagnostic and treatment center or health center, shall disclose to patients or […]
