New York A 6245: Relates to confidentiality of certain investigations and proceedings relating to a medical or a quality assurance review or a medical or dental malpractice prevention program

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A06245 Summary:

BILL NOA06245 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSeptimo

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COSPNSRKay

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §6527, Ed L; amd §2805-m, Pub Health L

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Expands confidentiality provisions relating to certain investigations of medical or quality assurance or a medical or dental malpractice prevention program, to include statements made by any persons at such reviews who are a party to an action which was reviewed at such proceedings.

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BILL NOA06245 

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02/27/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6245

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 27, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SEPTIMO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Higher Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation
 to confidentiality of certain investigations and proceedings relating
 to a medical or a quality assurance review or a medical or dental
 malpractice prevention program

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 6527 of the education law, as
 2 amended by chapter 257 of the laws of 1987, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 3. No individual who serves as a member of (a) a committee established
 5 to administer a utilization review plan of a hospital, including a
 6 hospital as defined in article twenty-eight of the public health law or
 7 a hospital as defined in subdivision ten of section 1.03 of the mental
 8 hygiene law, or (b) a committee having the responsibility of the inves-
 9 tigation of an incident reported pursuant to section 29.29 of the mental
 10 hygiene law or the evaluation and improvement of the quality of care
 11 rendered in a hospital as defined in article twenty-eight of the public
 12 health law or a hospital as defined in subdivision ten of section 1.03
 13 of the mental hygiene law, or (c) any medical review committee or
 14 subcommittee thereof of a local, county or state medical, dental, podia-
 15 try or optometrical society, any such society itself, a professional
 16 standards review organization or an individual when such committee,
 17 subcommittee, society, organization or individual is performing any
 18 medical or quality assurance review function including the investigation
 19 of an incident reported pursuant to section 29.29 of the mental hygiene
 20 law, either described in clauses (a) and (b) of this subdivision,
 21 required by law, or involving any controversy or dispute between (i) a
 22 physician, dentist, podiatrist or optometrist or hospital administrator
 23 and a patient concerning the diagnosis, treatment or care of such

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06995-01-5

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 1 patient or the fees or charges therefor or (ii) a physician, dentist,
 2 podiatrist or optometrist or hospital administrator and a provider of
 3 medical, dental, podiatric or optometrical services concerning any
 4 medical or health charges or fees of such physician, dentist, podiatrist
 5 or optometrist, or (d) a committee appointed pursuant to section twen-
 6 ty-eight hundred five-j of the public health law to participate in the
 7 medical and dental malpractice prevention program, or (e) any individual
 8 who participated in the preparation of incident reports required by the
 9 department of health pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred five-l of
 10 the public health law, or (f) a committee established to administer a
 11 utilization review plan, or a committee having the responsibility of
 12 evaluation and improvement of the quality of care rendered, in a health
 13 maintenance organization organized under article forty-four of the
 14 public health law or article forty-three of the insurance law, including
 15 a committee of an individual practice association or medical group
 16 acting pursuant to a contract with such a health maintenance organiza-
 17 tion, shall be l