New York Laws
Article 28 - Hospitals
2804-A - State Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and Medical Technology Assessment.

(b) "medical technology" shall mean an instrument or unit of equipment
or technique for use as a health related treatment, testing or
diagnostic tool.
3. Task force members shall receive no compensation but shall be
reimbursed for travel expenses incurred in the performance of their
duties.
4. The task force may establish medical specialty advisory committees
to assist in carrying out its responsibilities pursuant to this section.
5. The task force shall solicit the cooperation and participation of
medical specialty organizations recognized by the American Board of
Medical Specialties with clinical practice guideline experience. The
state task force shall meet as necessary to fulfill its
responsibilities.
6. The task force, in consultation with the commissioner, shall
solicit specific research and/or project proposals from medical
specialty societies recognized by the American Board of Medical
Specialties to promote the development and application of clinical
practice guidelines and appropriate use of medical technology.
Speciality societies, at their option, may incorporate the involvement
of any other organization which they deem appropriate into their
proposal. The task force shall then recommend to the commissioner
specific research projects to be undertaken by such specialty society
candidates for grants and contracts pursuant to subdivision fifteen of
section two hundred six of this chapter. The task force shall not
recommend any projects for the purpose of developing clinical practice
guideline-based reimbursement methodologies or any other regulations.
7. The task force in cooperation with the medical specialty
organizations recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties
shall issue a report to the governor and legislature by May first,
nineteen hundred ninety-five which shall:
(i) describe the current status of practice guidelines, their uses and
their impact on health care delivery and outcomes;
(ii) identify appropriate uses of practice guidelines and medical
technology for purposes of improving health care quality and efficiency;
(iii) identify inappropriate uses or applications of practice guide-
lines and medical technology;
(iv) identify by what means the uses of practice guidelines should be
facilitated, if appropriate or warranted; and
(v) identify what role, if any, state government should have relative
to practice guidelines.
8. Staff of the department shall be made available to provide
technical assistance to the task force as necessary.
* NB Expired June 30, 1996

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