Section 1370-C. Screening by health care providers

1. The department is
  authorized to promulgate regulations establishing the means by which and
  the intervals at which children and pregnant women shall be screened for
  elevated lead levels. The  department  is  also  authorized  to  require
  screening for lead poisoning in other high risk groups.
    2.  Every  physician  or  other  authorized  practitioner who provides
  medical care to children or pregnant women,  shall  screen  children  or
  refer  them  for screening for elevated lead levels at the intervals and
  using  the  methods  specified  in  such  regulations.  Every  licensed,
  registered  or  approved health care facility serving children including
  but  not  limited  to  hospitals,   clinics   and   health   maintenance
  organizations, shall ensure, by providing screenings or by referring for
  screenings,  that  their  patients  receive  screening  for  lead at the
  intervals and using the methods specified in such regulations.
    3. The health practitioner who screens any child for lead shall give a
  certificate of screening to the parent or guardian of the child.
    4. The department shall establish a separate level of payment, subject
  to the approval of the director of the  budget,  for  payments  made  by
  governmental  agencies for screenings performed pursuant to this section
  by hospitals, as defined in section twenty-eight  hundred  one  of  this
  chapter.