Bill > A10076

This bill enhances the Department of Health's (DOH) ability to investigate, discipline, and monitor licensed physicians, physician assistants, and specialist assistants by expanding the grounds for professional misconduct, shortening response times for inquiries, and clarifying reporting requirements. Specifically, it adds new categories of professional misconduct, such as failing to report criminal charges or certain events to the DOH within ten days, and engaging in sexual behavior with patients that exploits the practitioner-patient relationship. The bill also reduces the time for licensees to respond to DOH communications from thirty to ten days and allows the DOH to demand documents within ten days, with failure to comply constituting a violation. Additionally, it mandates fingerprinting and criminal history record checks for applicants, clarifies how charges are served and made public, and adjusts timelines for summary actions and investigations, including extending the period for summary orders from ninety to one hundred twenty days in certain situations. Finally, it requires hospitals and facilities to report when they receive information that a personnel provider may not assign an individual due to alleged impairment, incompetence, malpractice, misconduct, or patient safety concerns.

Health and Social Services

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A10076