4307 - Providers of services.

§ 4307. Providers of services. (a) Any hospital service corporation or  health  service  corporation  may  provide benefits for the rendering of  hospital service to persons covered under its contracts (i) by hospitals  maintained by the  state  or  any  of  its  political  subdivisions,  or  maintained  by  a  corporation organized for hospital purposes under the  not-for-profit  corporation  law,  (ii)   by   such   other   hospitals,  convalescent  institutions and nursing homes as shall have been approved  by the commissioner of health for such purpose, (iii) with such  private  or  public  instrumentalities  providing  home nursing services as shall  have been approved by the  commissioner  of  health  for  such  purpose,  and/or  (iv) subject to the approval of the superintendent, with similar  corporations of other states and hospitals of other  states  subject  to  the supervision of such other states.    * (d)  In  the event a health maintenance organization which is either  licensed as a health  service  corporation  under  this  article  or  is  operating  pursuant  to a certificate of authority granted in accordance  with the provisions of article forty-four of the public health  law,  or  any other health service corporation is deemed insolvent, as provided in  subsection  (c)  of  section  four  thousand  three  hundred ten of this  article, then no individual subscriber or enrollee of, or served by, the  health maintenance organization or health service corporation  shall  be  liable  to any provider of health care services for any covered services  of the insolvent  health  maintenance  organization  or  health  service  corporation.  No  provider of health care services or any representative  of such provider shall collect or attempt to collect from the individual  subscriber or enrollee sums owed by a health maintenance organization or  health  service  corporation  deemed  insolvent,  and  no  provider   or  representative  of  such provider may maintain any action at law against  an individual subscriber or  enrollee  to  collect  sums  owed  to  such  provider  by  such  health  maintenance  organization  or health service  corporation.    * NB Amended by § 112-a and Repealed by § 143 of 639/96    * § 4307. Providers of services. (a) Any hospital service  corporation  or  health service corporation may provide benefits for the rendering of  hospital service to persons covered under its contracts (i) by hospitals  maintained by the  state  or  any  of  its  political  subdivisions,  or  maintained  by  a  corporation organized for hospital purposes under the  not-for-profit  corporation  law,  (ii)   by   such   other   hospitals,  convalescent  institutions and nursing homes as shall have been approved  by the commissioner of health for such purpose, (iii) with such  private  or  public  instrumentalities  providing  home nursing services as shall  have been approved by the  commissioner  of  health  for  such  purpose,  and/or  (iv) subject to the approval of the superintendent, with similar  corporations of other states and hospitals of other  states  subject  to  the supervision of such other states.    (b)  All  rates  of payments to hospitals, nursing homes, convalescent  institutions and instrumentalities providing home nursing services  made  by such corporation pursuant to the contracts provided for in subsection  (a)  hereof  shall  prior  to  payment,  (i) in the case of institutions  subject to article twenty-eight of the public health law,  be  certified  by the commissioner of health pursuant to the provisions of such article  twenty-eight   of   the   public   health   law   and  approved  by  the  superintendent, and, (ii) in the case of other institutions, approved as  to reasonableness by the superintendent.    (c) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b) of this section,  approval  by  the  superintendent  shall  not  be required for rates of payment by  article  forty-three  corporations  for  in-patient  hospital   services  provided  after  December thirty-first, nineteen hundred eighty-three bygeneral hospitals subject to article twenty-eight of the  public  health  law.    (d)  After  approval  by the superintendent each corporation organized  under this article shall notify each hospital and health related service  of its approved rates of payment for out-patient services, in  instances  where such rates are determined on the basis of a cost based formula, at  least thirty days prior to the beginning of each rate year.    * NB  Expired  January  1, 1986. Remains effective prior to such date.  See ch 906/85 § 3