New York Laws
Title 1 - Health Information
2996 - Study of Physician Credentialing.

(a) examine the efficacy of the credentialing process prescribed by
section twenty-eight hundred five-j of this chapter;
(b) determine which methods of organizing such a clearinghouse with
standardized data in a standardized format will provide the greatest
usability and convenience to health care providers and health care
plans;
(c) identify the most appropriate entity to administer such a
clearinghouse, and verify collected credential information; and
(d) identify safeguards to protect the privacy of providers
participating in such a credentialing system.
2. The department shall provide a report of its findings and
recommendations to the governor and legislature within eighteen months
of the effective date of this section.