2993 – Regulations.
§ 2993. Regulations. The commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioners of the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities, shall establish such regulations as may be necessary for the implementation of this article, subject to the provisions of subdivision two of section two thousand nine hundred ninety-one of […]
2994 – Rights to Be Publicized.
§ 2994. Rights to be publicized. The commissioner of health shall prepare a statement summarizing the rights, duties and requirements of this article and shall require that a copy of such statement: 1. Be furnished to patients or their families at or prior to the time of admission to a hospital, and to each member […]
2987 – Liability for Health Care Costs.
§ 2987. Liability for health care costs. Liability for the cost of health care provided pursuant to an agent’s decision shall be the same as if the health care were provided pursuant to the principal’s decision.
2988 – Requiring or Prohibiting Execution of Proxy.
§ 2988. Requiring or prohibiting execution of proxy. No person may require or prohibit the execution of a health care proxy by an individual as a condition for providing health care services or insurance to such individual.
2989 – Effect on Other Rights.
§ 2989. Effect on other rights. 1. A competent adult’s failure to appoint a health care agent or to provide the agent with specific health care instructions pursuant to this article shall create no presumptions regarding the adult’s wishes about health care. 2. Nothing in this article creates, expands, diminishes, impairs or supersedes any authority […]
2990 – Proxies Executed in Other States.
§ 2990. Proxies executed in other states. A health care proxy or similar instrument executed in another state or jurisdiction in compliance with the law of that state or jurisdiction shall be considered validly executed for purposes of this article.
2991 – Creation and Use of Proxies in Residential Health Care and Mental Hygiene Facilities.
§ 2991. Creation and use of proxies in residential health care and mental hygiene facilities. 1. Residential health care facilities and mental hygiene facilities shall establish procedures: (a) to provide information to adult residents about their right to create a health care proxy under this article; (b) to educate adult residents about the authority delegated […]
2992 – Special Proceeding Authorized.
§ 2992. Special proceeding authorized. The health care provider, the conservator for, or committee of the principal, members of the principal’s family, a close friend of the principal as defined in subdivision five of section two thousand nine hundred sixty-one of this chapter, or the commissioner of health, mental health, or developmental disabilities may commence […]
2983 – Determination of Lack of Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions for the Purpose of Empowering Agent.
§ 2983. Determination of lack of capacity to make health care decisions for the purpose of empowering agent. 1. Determination by attending practitioner. (a) A determination that a principal lacks capacity to make health care decisions shall be made by the attending practitioner to a reasonable degree of medical certainty. The determination shall be made […]
2984 – Provider’s Obligations.
§ 2984. Provider’s obligations. 1. A health care provider who is provided with a health care proxy shall arrange for the proxy or a copy thereof to be inserted in the principal’s medical record if the health care proxy has not been included in such record. 2. A health care provider shall comply with health […]