New York Consolidated Laws, Insurance Law - ISC § 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(b), (c) Repealed by L.1996, c. 639, § 143, eff. Sept. 12, 1996, deemed eff. July 1, 1996.

(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.