NY Ins L § 5109 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ISC - Insurance Article 51 - Comprehensive Motor Vehicle Insurance Reparations 5109 - Unauthorized Providers of Health Services.

§   5109.   Unauthorized   providers   of  health  services.  (a)  The superintendent, in consultation with the commissioner of health and  the commissioner of education, shall by regulation, promulgate standards and procedures   for   investigating   and   suspending   or   removing  the authorization for providers of health  services  to  demand  or  request payment  for health services as specified in paragraph one of subsection (a) of section five thousand  one  hundred  two  of  this  article  upon findings  reached  after  investigation  pursuant  to this section. Such regulations shall ensure the same or  greater  due  process  provisions, including  notice  and  opportunity  to  be  heard,  as  those  afforded physicians investigated under article two of the  workers'  compensation law  and  shall  include provision for notice to all providers of health services of the provisions of this section and  regulations  promulgated thereunder at least ninety days in advance of the effective date of such regulations.  (b) The commissioner of health and the commissioner of education shall provide  a list of the names of all providers of health services who the commissioner of health and the commissioner  of  education  shall  deem, after  reasonable investigation, not authorized to demand or request any payment for medical services in connection with  any  claim  under  this article because such provider of health services:  (1)   has   been   guilty  of  professional  or  other  misconduct  or incompetency in connection with medical  services  rendered  under  this article; or  (2)  has  exceeded the limits of his or her professional competence in rendering medical care under this article or has knowingly made a  false statement  or representation as to a material fact in any medical report made in connection with any claim under this article; or  (3) solicited, or has employed  another  to  solicit  for  himself  or herself  or  for another, professional treatment, examination or care of an injured person in connection with any claim under this article; or  (4) has refused to appear before, or to answer upon  request  of,  the commissioner  of  health,  the  superintendent,  or  any duly authorized officer of the state, any legal question, or  to  produce  any  relevant information  concerning  his or her conduct in connection with rendering medical services under this article; or  (5) has engaged in patterns of billing for  services  which  were  not provided.  (c)  Providers  of  health  services  shall  refrain from subsequently treating for remuneration, as a  private  patient,  any  person  seeking medical  treatment  under this article if such provider pursuant to this section has been prohibited from demanding or requesting any payment for medical services under this article. An injured claimant so  treated  or examined  may raise this as a defense in any action by such provider for payment for treatment rendered at any time after such provider has  been prohibited  from demanding or requesting payment for medical services in connection with any claim under this article.  (d) The commissioner of health and the commissioner of education shall maintain and regularly update a database containing a list of  providers of  health  services  prohibited  by  this  section  from  demanding  or requesting any payment for health services connected to  a  claim  under this  article and shall make such information available to the public by means of a website and by a toll free number.  (e) Nothing in this section shall be  construed  as  limiting  in  any respect   the   powers   and  duties  of  the  commissioner  of  health, commissioner of education or the superintendent to investigate instances of misconduct by a health care provider and, after a  hearing  and  upon written  notice  to  the provider, to temporarily prohibit a provider of  health services under such investigation from  demanding  or  requesting any  payment  for  medical  services under this article for up to ninety days from the date of such notice.