Title PBH, Public Health

§ 586. Payment for services. 1. It shall be unlawful for any purveyor of clinical laboratory services, directly or indirectly, through any person, firm, corporation or association or its officers or agents, to bill or receive payment, reimbursement, compensation or fee from any …

§ 587. Prohibited practices. 1. No health services purveyor shall solicit, receive, accept or agree to receive or accept any payment or other consideration in any form to the extent such payment or other consideration is given for the referral of services or participate in the d…

§ 588. Violations and penalties. 1. Any health services purveyor, clinical laboratory, or any agent, employee or fiduciary of a health services purveyor or clinical laboratory who violates the provisions of section five hundred eighty-six of this title, or any rule or regulation…

§ 600. State aid; general requirements. In order to be eligible for state aid under this title, a municipality shall be required to do the following in accordance with the provisions of this article: 1. submit an application to the department for state aid which is approved by t…

§ 601. Application for state aid. 1. The governing body of each municipality desiring to make application for state aid under this title shall annually, on such dates as may be fixed by the commissioner, submit an application for such aid. 2. The application shall be in such for…

§ 602. Core public health services. 1. To be eligible for state aid, a municipality must provide the following core public health services: (a) Family health, which shall include activities designed to reduce perinatal, infant and maternal mortality and morbidity and to promote …

§ 602-a. Community health assessment. 1. Every municipality shall submit to the department no more frequently than every two years, a community health assessment. 2. The community health assessment shall be in such form as the commissioner shall prescribe, and shall include, but…

§ 603. Core public health services; implementation. 1. In order to be eligible for state aid under this title, each municipality shall administer its core public health services in accordance with the standards of performance established by the commissioner through rules and reg…

§ 604. Supervision of public health programs. In order to be eligible for state aid, under this title, each municipality shall employ a full-time local commissioner of health or public health director to supervise the provision of public health services for that municipality, su…

§ 605. State aid; amount of reimbursement. 1. A state aid base grant shall be reimbursed to municipalities for the core public health services identified in section six hundred two of this title, in an amount of the greater of one dollar and thirty cents per capita, for each per…

§ 606. Assessment of fees; third-party coverage or indemnification. 1.\nAssessment of fees by municipalities. Each municipality shall establish\na schedule of fees for public health services provided by the\nmunicipality and shall make every reasonable effort to collect such\nfe…

§ 607. Supplemental health services grants. 1. There shall be established within the special revenue fund-other a local public health services program account. All revenues derived from fees collected by the department pursuant to subdivision two of section six hundred six of th…

§ 608. State aid; children and youth with special health care needs support services. 1. Whenever the commissioner of health of any county or part-county health district or, in a county lacking a county or part-county health district, the medical director of the children and you…

§ 609. State aid; laboratories. 1. Where a laboratory shall have been or is hereafter established pursuant to article five of this chapter, the state, through the legislature and within the limits to be prescribed by the commissioner, shall provide aid at a per centum, determine…

§ 613. State aid; immunization. 1. (a) The commissioner shall develop and supervise the execution of a program of immunization, surveillance and testing, to raise to the highest reasonable level the immunity of the children of the state against communicable diseases including, b…

§ 614. Definitions. The following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "County", any county of the state other than one wholly embraced within a city or any combinations of counties or parts of a county that constitutes a health district. 2. "City", each city of the state…

§ 615. State aid; form. The appropriations made or to be made for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this article shall be available, in accordance with certificates of approval issued or to be issued by the director of the budget, to the commissioner for the payment…

§ 616. Limitations on state aid. 1. The total amount of state aid provided pursuant to this article shall be limited to the amount of the annual appropriation made by the legislature. In no event, however, shall such state aid be less than an amount to provide the full base gran…

§ 617. Maintenance of effort. Such amount of state aid provided will be used to support and to the extent practicable, to increase the level of funds that would otherwise be made available for such purposes and not to supplant the amount to be provided by the municipalities. If …

§ 618. Performance and accountability. The commissioner shall establish, in consultation with the municipalities, uniform statewide performance standards for the services funded pursuant to this article; provided, however, the commissioner may modify a specific standard for a mu…

§ 619. Commissioner; regulatory powers. The commissioner shall adopt regulations to effectuate the provisions and purposes of this article, including, but not limited to: 1. setting standards of performance for the provision of core public health services which shall include per…

§ 619-a. Incentive standards of performance. 1. The commissioner may establish statewide incentive performance standards for the delivery of core public health services. 2. Within amounts appropriated, and subject to the approval of the director of the budget, the commissioner m…

§ 620. Public health services program audit recoveries. All monies received or recovered by the department after the effective date of this section as a result of any audit exception assessed against the state aid reimbursement to a municipality under this article shall be depos…

§ 621. State aid; public health emergencies. If the state commissioner or a county health department or part-county department of health or municipality, with the approval of the state commissioner, determines that there is an imminent threat to public health, the department sha…

§ 695. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as the "rape crisis intervention and prevention act of two thousand".

§ 695-a. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Rape crisis intervention and prevention program" means any program which has been approved by the department offering counseling and assistance to clients concerning sex offenses, sexual abuse, or incest. 2. "Community support s…

§ 695-b. Authorization of programs. 1. The department is hereby authorized to contract, within amounts appropriated, for the provision of rape crisis intervention and prevention programs as provided herein. Rules, regulations and guidelines as shall be necessary or appropriate t…

§ 695-c. Technical assistance. The department shall provide or arrange to provide technical assistance as requested and necessary to programs to develop appropriate services and train staff, improve coordination with other appropriate support services, the criminal justice syste…

§ 695-e. Assistance of other agencies. To effectuate the purposes of this article, the department may request from any department, board, bureau, commission or other agency of the state, and the same are authorized to provide, such assistance, services and data as will enable th…

§ 700. Federal aid; department to administer. 1. The department is hereby designated as the agency of the state to administer the provisions of the federal social security act or any other act of the congress which relate to maternal and child health services, the care and treat…

§ 701. Federal aid; powers and duties of commissioner. The commissioner is authorized and empowered: (a) to receive and disburse pursuant to this article the federal-aid moneys allotted to the state by or pursuant to the federal social security act or any other act of the congre…

§ 702. Federal aid; custody and payment of funds. 1. The department of taxation and finance is designated as custodian of all federal-aid funds allotted to the state for the purposes of this article by the United States. 2. Such funds shall be payable only on the audit and warra…

§ 703. Federal aid; allotments to municipalities and local health districts. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, the governing body of any municipal corporation or of any health district by a majority vote may authorize the proper officials of…

§ 800. State health research council. There is hereby established in the health department a state health research council. The council shall consist of the commissioners of health, mental hygiene, environmental conservation, and education, the chancellor of the state university…

§ 801. Organization; executive director. The council may organize into such organizational units as the members determine to be necessary. The chairman shall appoint an executive director for the council. The department and any institute created by this chapter are authorized to…

§ 802. Powers and duties. 1. The council shall have the power and duty to: a. identify strategic areas for health research; b. conduct ongoing surveys of the state allocation of health research sources; c. develop health research programs and establish priorities for such progra…

§ 803. Gender-specific questions on grant applications. In order to obtain reliable and comprehensive data on the health needs of women as well as to ensure that women's health needs are served, in developing grant applications and consistent with the objectives and nature of th…

§ 900. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as the "primary care education and training act."

§ 901. Definitions. The following words or phrases as used in this article shall have the following meanings: 1. "Continuity experience" means that site where a resident spends at least twenty percent of his or her training providing primary care services to a panel of patients …

§ 902. Grants for primary care undergraduate medical education. 1. The commissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of education, is authorized, within amounts available pursuant to subdivision nineteen-a of section twenty-eight hundred seven-c of this chapter, to make g…

§ 903. Primary care physician loan repayment program. 1. The\ncommissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of education and\nthe president of the higher education services corporation, is\nauthorized and directed to establish a physician loan repayment program\nto encour…

§ 904. Primary care practitioner scholarship program. 1. The\ncommissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of education and\nthe president of the higher education services corporation, is\nauthorized and directed to establish a primary care practitioner\nscholarship prog…

§ 905. Grants for primary care practitioner education. 1. The commissioner in collaboration with the commissioner of education is authorized, within amounts available pursuant to subdivision nineteen-a of section twenty-eight hundred seven-c of this chapter, to make grants to co…

§ 906. Grants for minority participation in medical education. 1. The commissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of education, within amounts available pursuant to subdivision nineteen-a of section twenty-eight hundred seven-c and section twenty-eight hundred seven-l o…

§ 907. Reports. The commissioner, in conjunction with the commissioner of education, shall prepare and submit a report to the governor and the legislature, due on February first, nineteen hundred ninety-five, reporting the results and evaluating the effectiveness of the New York…

§ 921. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: 1. "Applicant" means an eligible employer which submits an application under subdivision two of section nine hundred twenty-two of this article. 2. "Eligible employer" means a so…

§ 922. New York state small business health insurance partnership program. 1. The commissioner is authorized to the extent of funds available therefor to establish the New York state small business health insurance partnership program. 2. New York state small business health ins…

§ 923. Definitions. The following words or phrases as used in this section shall have the following meanings: 1. "Underserved area" means an area or medically underserved population designated by the commissioner as having a shortage of primary care physicians, other primary car…

§ 924. Primary care service corps practitioner loan repayment program.\n1. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this section, sections one\nhundred twelve and one hundred sixty-three of the state finance law, or\nany other contrary provision of law, the commissioner is auth…