S10513 • 2025

Relates to disclosing certain diagnostic results to patients on their electronic health record

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Sponsor: Jessica Scarcella-Spanton
Last action: 2026-05-15
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to disclosing certain diagnostic results to patients on their electronic health record

Relates to disclosing certain diagnostic results to patients on their electronic health record Prohibits the disclosure of a pathology report or radiology report that has a reasonable likelihood of showing a finding of malignancy to patients on their electronic health record for seventy-two hours or unless the treating practitioner contacts the patient before the end of the seventy-two hour period.

What This Bill Does

Relates to disclosing certain diagnostic results to patients on their electronic health record Prohibits the disclosure of a pathology report or radiology report that has a reasonable likelihood of showing a finding of malignancy to patients on their electronic health record for seventy-two hours or unless the treating practitioner contacts the patient before the end of the seventy-two hour period.

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Bill History

2026-05-15 Senate
REFERRED TO HEALTH

Official Summary Text

Relates to disclosing certain diagnostic results to patients on their electronic health record
Prohibits the disclosure of a pathology report or radiology report that has a reasonable likelihood of showing a finding of malignancy to patients on their electronic health record for seventy-two hours or unless the treating practitioner contacts the patient before the end of the seventy-two hour period.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          10513

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 15, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to disclosing certain
          diagnostic results to patients on their electronic health record

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  18-d to read as follows:
     3    § 18-D. DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS. 1. FOR THE  PURPOSES
     4  OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
     5    (A)  "ELECTRONIC  HEALTH  RECORD"  SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS SUCH
     6  TERM IS DEFINED BY SECTION FORTY-FOUR HUNDRED EIGHT OF THIS CHAPTER.
     7    (B) "TREATING PRACTITIONER" SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS  SUCH  TERM
     8  IS DEFINED BY SECTION EIGHTEEN OF THIS TITLE.
     9    2.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION  OF  LAW  TO THE CONTRARY, WHERE A
    10  PATHOLOGY REPORT OR RADIOLOGY REPORT  HAS  A  REASONABLE  LIKELIHOOD  OF
    11  SHOWING A FINDING OF MALIGNANCY, SUCH REPORT SHALL NOT BE DISCLOSED TO A
    12  PATIENT  AS  A  PART OF THEIR ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD UNTIL SEVENTY-TWO
    13  HOURS AFTER SUCH REPORT IS FINALIZED, UNLESS THE  TREATING  PRACTITIONER
    14  CONTACTS THE PATIENT REGARDING THE RESULTS OF SUCH REPORT BEFORE THE END
    15  OF THE SEVENTY-TWO HOUR PERIOD.
    16    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15935-01-6