Section 2953. Distribution of reports  


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  • The commissioner shall prepare a
      report by December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-five, and every
      two years thereafter which shall include a status report of each network
      in conjunction with the legislative commission  on  the  development  of
      rural  resources,  which  shall  contain  a  description  of the various
      networks, their effect  on  cost,  delivery,  continuity,  quality,  and
      accessibility of health care services in rural areas, the effect of each
      network on existing providers and consumers of such services, as well as
      the  effect  on  each  community served. The commissioner may arrange by
      contract with an independent entity for the preparation of such  reports
      including  evaluation activities necessary to produce such reports. Such
      reports shall also identify laws, rules and regulations that  should  be
      adopted,  repealed  or  amended in order to make it possible to properly
      and efficiently implement such networks in rural  areas  of  the  state.
      Such  reports  shall  be  made  available and distributed to all network
      participants  in  the  program,  as  well  as  to  the   governor,   the
      legislature,  the  chair  of the New York state rural health council and
      the chair of the legislative commission  on  the  development  of  rural
      resources.