Section 529-A. Payment of costs for medical and dental services

1.
  Diagnoses, tests, studies or analyses for the diagnosis of a disease  or
  disability,  and care and treatment by a hospital, as defined in article
  twenty-eight of the public health law,  or  by  a  physician,  or  by  a
  dentist to youths in division facilities shall be without cost or charge
  to the persons receiving such examinations, care or treatment.
    2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
  the division may  require  reimbursement  for  costs  paid  pursuant  to
  subdivision  one  of  this  section  from  any  third  party coverage or
  indemnification covering a youth placed with the  division.  Such  third
  party  coverage  or  indemnification  shall first be applied against the
  total  cost  to  the  hospital  or  other  provider  as  established  in
  accordance  with the provisions of section twenty-eight hundred seven of
  the public health law relating to rates of payment  of  an  individual's
  care and treatment, as provided therein.
    3.   Nothing   in   this   section  shall  be  deemed  to  affect  the
  responsibility for support of children in  the  division  as  prescribed
  pursuant to section five hundred twenty-eight of this chapter.