Section 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.
    * (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.
    * NB Amended by § 112-a and Repealed by § 143 of 639/96