Senate Bill S3591A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes physicians and pharmacists to enter into collaborative practice medication adherence protocols for their patients

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-S3591 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6564
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 29-H §2999-ff, Pub Health L; add §6801-b, Ed L; amd §5, Chap 21 of 2011
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7682
2019-2020: S5296
2021-2022: S6110

2023-S3591 - Summary

Authorizes physicians and pharmacists to enter into collaborative practice medication adherence protocols for their patients; makes permanent certain provisions relating to authorizing pharmacists to perform with physicians in certain settings.

2023-S3591 - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3591 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3591
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 1, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. BRESLIN, ADDABBO -- 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 education law, in relation
   to comprehensive medication management; and to amend chapter 21 of the
   laws of 2011 amending the education law relating to authorizing  phar-
   macists  to  perform collaborative drug therapy management with physi-
   cians in certain settings, in relation to  making  the  provisions  of
   such chapter permanent
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  article
 29-H to read as follows:
                               ARTICLE 29-H
                    COMPREHENSIVE MEDICATION MANAGEMENT
 SECTION 2999-FF. COMPREHENSIVE MEDICATION MANAGEMENT.
   §  2999-FF.  COMPREHENSIVE  MEDICATION  MANAGEMENT. 1. DEFINITIONS. AS
 USED IN THIS ARTICLE, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEAN-
 INGS:
   (A) QUALIFIED PHARMACIST. THE TERM "QUALIFIED PHARMACIST" SHALL MEAN A
 PHARMACIST WHO MAINTAINS A  CURRENT  UNRESTRICTED  LICENSE  PURSUANT  TO
 ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN OF THE EDUCATION LAW, WHO HAS A MINIMUM
 OF  TWO  YEARS  OF EXPERIENCE IN PATIENT CARE AS A PRACTICING PHARMACIST
 WITHIN THE LAST FIVE YEARS, AND WHO HAS DEMONSTRATED COMPETENCY  IN  THE
 MEDICATION  MANAGEMENT  OF  PATIENTS WITH A CHRONIC DISEASE OR DISEASES,
 INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE COMPLETION OF ONE  OR  MORE  PROGRAMS
 WHICH  ARE  ACCREDITED  BY THE ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR PHARMACY EDUCA-
 TION, RECOGNIZED BY THE  EDUCATION  DEPARTMENT  AND  ACCEPTABLE  TO  THE
 PATIENT'S TREATING PHYSICIAN.
   (B)  PATIENT  CARE.  THE  TERM "PATIENT CARE" SHALL MEAN ASSESSING THE
 APPROPRIATENESS OF PRESCRIPTION AND NON-PRESCRIPTION DRUGS FOR  INDIVID-
 UAL PATIENTS BASED ON AN ASSESSMENT OF THE PATIENT'S MEDICATION HISTORY,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08609-01-3
              

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2023-S3591A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6564
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 29-H §2999-ff, Pub Health L; add §6801-b, Ed L; amd §5, Chap 21 of 2011
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7682
2019-2020: S5296
2021-2022: S6110

2023-S3591A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes physicians and pharmacists to enter into collaborative practice medication adherence protocols for their patients; makes permanent certain provisions relating to authorizing pharmacists to perform with physicians in certain settings.

2023-S3591A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3591A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  3591--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 1, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. BRESLIN, ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- commit-
   tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and  recom-
   mitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
   to  collaborative  practice medication adherence; and to amend chapter
   21 of the laws of 2011 amending the education law relating to  author-
   izing pharmacists  to  perform  collaborative drug  therapy management
   with  physicians  in  certain  settings,  in  relation  to  making the
   provisions  of such chapter permanent
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Collabora-
 tive Practice Medication Adherence Act".
   §  2. The public health law is amended by adding a new article 29-H to
 read as follows:
                               ARTICLE 29-H
              COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE MEDICATION ADHERENCE ACT
 SECTION 2999-FF. COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE MEDICATION ADHERENCE.
   § 2999-FF.  COLLABORATIVE  PRACTICE  MEDICATION  ADHERENCE.  1.  DEFI-
 NITIONS.  AS  USED  IN  THIS ARTICLE, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE
 FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A) QUALIFIED PHARMACIST. THE TERM "QUALIFIED PHARMACIST" SHALL MEAN A
 PHARMACIST WHO MAINTAINS A  CURRENT  UNRESTRICTED  LICENSE  PURSUANT  TO
 ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN OF THE EDUCATION LAW, WHO HAS A MINIMUM
 OF  TWO  YEARS  OF EXPERIENCE IN PATIENT CARE AS A PRACTICING PHARMACIST
 WITHIN THE LAST FIVE YEARS, AND WHO HAS DEMONSTRATED COMPETENCY IN MEDI-
 CATION ADHERENCE OF PATIENTS WITH A CHRONIC DISEASE OR DISEASES, INCLUD-
 ING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE COMPLETION OF ONE OR  MORE  PROGRAMS  WHICH
 ARE  ACCREDITED  BY  THE  ACCREDITATION  COUNCIL FOR PHARMACY EDUCATION,

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08609-04-3
 S. 3591--A                          2
              

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