New York Consolidated Laws, Public Health Law - PBH § 3018. Community-based paramedicine demonstration program

1. The department shall establish a community paramedicine demonstration program to evaluate the role of emergency medical services personnel in the delivery of health care services in the community in non-emergent settings.

2. For purposes of this section, “emergency medical services personnel” shall mean an emergency medical technician, or an advanced emergency medical technician as defined in this article.

3. This program shall authorize mobile integrated and community paramedicine programs presently operating and approved by the department as of May eleventh, two thousand twenty-three, under the authority of Executive Order Number 4 of two thousand twenty-one, entitled “Declaring a Statewide Disaster Emergency Due to Healthcare staffing shortages in the State of New York” to continue in the same manner and capacity as currently approved for a period of four years following the effective date of this section.

4. Such program shall include but not be limited to:

5. Upon the effective date of this section, the department shall convene a stakeholder advisory panel including patient representatives, health care facilities operating or utilizing community paramedicine programs, emergency medical services providers and labor organizations representing emergency medical services personnel, and labor organizations representing nursing and other healthcare professional titles affected by the demonstration program flexibilities to advise the department to make recommendations on regulations and guidance that will:

6. The department shall submit a report on the demonstration program on an annual basis to the speaker of the assembly, the temporary president of the senate, the chairs of the assembly and senate health committees, and the governor.