Section 7551. Applicability

The provisions of this article shall apply to
  all claims for damages because of injury or death resulting from  health
  care  or  treatment  rendered  or failed to be rendered to enrollees and
  other covered family members of health maintenance organizations and all
  other claims, cross-claims, counter-claims, and claims for  contribution
  and  indemnity  arising  from  claims subject to agreements to arbitrate
  made pursuant to section forty-four hundred six-a of the  public  health
  law  and  to  arbitrations authorized pursuant to section thirty hundred
  forty-five of this chapter.