Section 2521. Definitions

As used in this title:
    1.  "Prenatal  care service provider" means a medical care facility or
  public or private not-for-profit agency or organization or physician  or
  nurse midwife practicing on an individual or group basis which meets the
  requirements  of  section twenty-five hundred twenty-three of this title
  and which provides prenatal  care  services  as  enumerated  in  section
  twenty-five  hundred twenty-two of this title, and any enrolled provider
  of medical care, services and  supplies  under  the  medical  assistance
  program  for  needy  persons  established  pursuant  to  title eleven of
  article five of the social services law.
    2. "Public education organization" means a medical  care  facility  as
  specified  in  section  two  thousand  five hundred twenty-three of this
  title or a public or private not-for-profit agency or organization which
  provides  public  education  concerning  prenatal  care,  prenatal  care
  services  and  referrals  to  prenatal  care  service  providers and has
  entered into a memorandum of agreement with one or  more  prenatal  care
  service providers.
    3.  "Eligible  service  recipient" means a pregnant, low-income woman,
  who is not otherwise eligible for medical assistance and whose income is
  two hundred percent or less of the comparable  federal  income  official
  poverty  line  (as  defined  and  annually  revised by the United States
  department of  health  and  human  services).  Pregnant  women  eligible
  pursuant   to  this  subdivision  shall  continue  to  be  eligible  for
  assistance, without regard to any change in income of  the  families  of
  which  they  are  members, through the end of the month in which a sixty
  day period which begins on the last day their pregnancies shall end.
    4. "Pilot program" means a pilot program as described in section seven
  of the Prenatal Care Act of 1987.