New York S 7913: Relates to improper practices relating to staff membership or professional privileges of a physician and such physician's board certification

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S07913 Summary:

BILL NOS07913 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRIVERA

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§2801-b & 4406-d, Pub Health L; amd §4803, Ins L

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Relates to improper practices relating to staff membership or professional privileges of a physician and such physician's board certification.

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BILL NOS07913 

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05/13/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

05/28/20251ST REPORT CAL.1393

05/29/20252ND REPORT CAL.

06/04/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7913

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 May 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the insurance law, in relation
 to improper practices relating to staff membership or professional
 privileges of a physician and board certification

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2801-b of the public health law,
 2 as amended by chapter 605 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 1. It shall be an improper practice for the governing body of a hospi-
 5 tal to refuse to act upon an application for staff membership or profes-
 6 sional privileges or to deny or withhold from a physician, podiatrist,
 7 optometrist, dentist or licensed midwife staff membership or profes-
 8 sional privileges in a hospital, or to exclude or expel a physician,
 9 podiatrist, optometrist, dentist or licensed midwife from staff member-
 10 ship in a hospital or curtail, terminate or diminish in any way a physi-
 11 cian's, podiatrist's, optometrist's, dentist's or licensed midwife's
 12 professional privileges in a hospital, without stating the reasons
 13 therefor, or if the reasons stated are unrelated to standards of patient
 14 care, patient welfare, the objectives of the institution or the charac-
 15 ter or competency of the applicant. It shall be an improper practice for
 16 a governing body of a hospital to refuse to act upon an application or
 17 to deny or to withhold staff membership or professional privileges to a
 18 physician, podiatrist, optometrist, dentist, or licensed midwife based
 19 solely upon a practitioner's category of licensure. It shall be an
 20 improper practice for a governing body of a hospital to refuse to act
 21 upon an application or to deny or to withhold staff membership or
 22 professional privileges of a physician who was previously board-certi-
 23 fied and who has not maintained such certification solely because such
 24 physician is not board-certified.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11839-01-5

 S. 7913 2

 1 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 4406-d of the public
 2 health law, as amended by chapter 425 of the laws of 2016, is amended to
 3 read as follows:
 4 (a) A health care plan shall, upon request, make available and
 5 disclose to health care professionals written application procedures and
 6 minimum qualification requirements which a health care professional must
 7 meet in order to be considered by the health care plan. The plan shall
 8 consult with appropriately qualified health care professionals in devel-
 9 oping its qualification requirements. A health care plan shall complete
 10 review of the health care professional's application to participate in
 11 the in-network portion of the health care plan's network and shall,
 12 within sixty days of receiving a health care professional's completed
 13 application to participate in the health care plan's network, notify the
 14 health care professional as to: (i) whether [he or she] such health care
 15 professional is credentialed; or (ii) whether additional time is neces-
 16 sary to make a determination because of a failure of a third party to
 17 provide necessary documentation. In such instances where additional