12/22/10 N.Y. St. Reg. HLT-39-10-00004-A
PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following action:
Action taken:
Amendment of sections 405.6, 405.7, 405.19 and 708.5 of Title 10 NYCRR.
Statutory authority:
Public Health Law, section 2803(2)(a)
Subject:
Hospital Minimum Standards and Appropriateness Review.
Purpose:
To decrease look-back period for credentialing from 10 to 5 years; extend the physician coverage time for EDs from 20 to 30 minutes.
Text or summary was published
in the September 29, 2010 issue of the Register, I.D. No. HLT-39-10-00004-P.
Final rule as compared with last published rule:
No changes.
Text of rule and any required statements and analyses may be obtained from:
Katherine Ceroalo, DOH, Bureau of House Counsel, Regulatory Affairs Unit, Room 2438, ESP, Tower Building, Albany, NY 12237, (518) 473-7488, email:
regsqna@health.state.ny.usAssessment of Public Comment
The public comment period for this regulation ended on November 15, 2010. The Department received 2 comments.
One comment was from the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) and was in support of the proposed changes.
A second comment was received from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and focused only on the credentialing and privileging portion of the regulation. It stated that credentialing and re-credentialing of medical staff was time consuming and required the involvement of several offices within the institution. The comment noted that current requirements are largely duplicative of what already exists in the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). It was supportive of the proposal to require a 5 year look-back period to require hospitals to gather more current information not available through the NPDB, while reducing the administrative burden posed by the current 10 year look-back period.
Consequently, no changes were made to the proposed regulation.
