NY Pub Health L § 2582 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health Title 5 - Children With Physical Disabilities 2582 - Children With Physical Disabilities; Duty of the Department.

§  2582.  Children with physical disabilities; duty of the department.   1. The department shall on its own initiative provide, within the limits   of the appropriations made therefor, such medical service  for  children   with  physical  disabilities  as  in the judgment of the commissioner is   needed.2. 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 program for children with physical   disabilities, or the department of health of the city of New  York,  may   issue  authorizations  for  medical  service  for children with physical   disabilities, and the expenses thereof, when  approved  by  such  health   commissioner, department of health or medical director and duly audited,   shall  be a charge upon the county, or upon the city of New York if such   be the case, wherein the children are domiciled at the time  application   is made for such medical service.3.  Such  health  commissioner, department of health or county medical   director may determine and order that the person or persons charged with   the liability under the laws to support such child shall pay a  part  or   all  of  such  expenses.  A  parent  or  other  person who is ordered to   contribute to the cost of medical service authorized by this section may   petition the family court , pursuant to section two  hundred  thirty-two   of  the  family court act, for review of the order. Whenever a parent or   other person who is ordered to contribute to the cost of medical service   authorized by this section fails to make such contribution,  the  health   commissioner,  department of health or medical director may apply to the   family court, pursuant to section two hundred thirty-two of  the  family   court  act,  for  an  order  compelling  such  contribution.  The amount   authorized to be paid for medical  service  shall  be  in  full  payment   thereof  and  shall  be accepted by the person or corporation furnishing   such service in full payment thereof when any payment is made under such   authorization by the county or by the city of  New  York,  and  no  such   person  or  corporation  shall ask or receive directly or indirectly any   other or additional compensation.4. When 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 program for children with physical   disabilities, or the department of health of the city of New York, shall   issue  authorizations  for  medical  service  for children with physical   disabilities, the commissioner,  if  he  approves  such  authorizations,   shall  certify  to  such  effect, copies of which certification shall be   filed with the clerk of the board  of  supervisors  or  other  governing   elective  body  of the county or chief fiscal officer of the city of New   York and with the commissioner.5. The medical  service  provided  for  in  any  authorization  issued   pursuant  to  subdivision two may be furnished and completed even though   the  person  for  whom  such  service  is  to  be  provided  under  such   authorization  shall  have  thereafter  attained  the  age of twenty-one   years; provided, however, that no such authorization shall  provide  for   treatment beyond eighteen months from the date thereof.6.  The  circumstance  that  a  child  is  not  eligible  for  medical   assistance pursuant to the provisions of title eleven of article five of   the social services law shall  not  be  a  bar  to  the  furnishing  and   completion   of  the  medical  assistance  for  children  with  physical   disabilities authorized by this title.