Provides guidelines, corrective actions, and transparency, and to reconfigure the composition of committees of professional conduct within the office of professional medical conduct

Summary

The bill adds a new section to the Public Health Law that sets minimum and maximum penalties, including fines, for various types of medical misconduct. It also changes the makeup of the Office of Professional Medical Conduct’s review committees to include a physician and two qualified lay members, and requires medical facilities to give patients contact information for the office. Finally, it mandates that disciplinary decisions be posted online and that complainants be notified within ten days.

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