New York A 7534: Authorizes retail clinics to provide certain services

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A07534 Summary:

BILL NOA07534 

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SAME ASSAME AS S01963

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SPONSORPaulin

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COSPNSROtis

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §230-f, Pub Health L

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Authorizes retail clinics to provide certain services; directs the commissioner of health to enact regulations imposing certain standards and restrictions.

Go to top A07534 Actions:

BILL NOA07534 

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04/01/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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Go to topA07534 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7534

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 1, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to retail clinics

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

 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2 230-f to read as follows:
 3 § 230-f. Retail clinics. 1. As used in this section, "retail clinic"
 4 means a facility or portion of a facility that is operated by any entity
 5 that is authorized under the laws of this state to provide professional
 6 services to the public and that provides health care services or treat-
 7 ment provided by a health care practitioner licensed, certified, regis-
 8 tered or authorized to practice under title eight of the education law,
 9 acting within such health care practitioner's lawful scope of practice,
 10 that: (a) operates within the space of a retail business operation,
 11 such as a pharmacy or a store open to the general public; (b) is
 12 labeled, branded, advertised or marketed with the name or symbol of a
 13 retail business entity; or (c) is labeled, branded, advertised or
 14 marketed with the name or symbol of a business entity, other than a
 15 business entity that provides health care services or treatment provided
 16 at the facility. However, a facility or portion of a facility shall not
 17 be deemed to be a retail clinic if it ordinarily is used only for
 18 providing health care services to employees of the retail business oper-
 19 ation. A facility shall not be deemed to be a retail clinic if the
 20 health care service under title eight of the education law it provides
 21 is limited to pharmacy or ophthalmic dispensing and ophthalmologic or
 22 optometric services provided in connection with ophthalmic dispensing.
 23 2. The treatments and services that may be provided by a retail clinic
 24 shall be limited to the provision of treatment and services to patients
 25 for acute episodic illness or condition; episodic preventive treatment
 26 and services such as immunizations; ophthalmic dispensing and ophthalmo-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03236-01-5

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 1 logic or optometric services provided in connection with ophthalmic
 2 dispensing; or treatment and services for minor injuries that are not
 3 reasonably likely to be life-threatening or potentially disabling or
 4 have complications if ambulatory care within the capacity of the retail
 5 clinic is provided; but the treatments and services provided by a retail
 6 clinic shall not include monitoring or treatment and services over
 7 multiple visits over prolonged periods.
 8 3. A retail clinic shall be deemed to be a "health care provider" for
 9 the purposes of title two-D of this article. A prescriber practicing in
 10 a retail clinic shall not be deemed to be in the employ of a pharmacy or
 11 practicing in a hospital for purposes of subdivision two of section
 12 sixty-eight hundred seven of the education law.
 13 4. (a) The commissioner shall make regulations setting forth opera-
 14 tional and physical plant standards for retail clinics, which may be
 15 different from the regulations otherwise applicable to diagnostic and
 16 treatment centers, including, but not limited to:
 17 (i) requiring that retail clinics attain and maintain accreditation by
 18 an appropriate accrediting entity approved by the commissioner and
 19 requiring timely reporting to the department if a retail