Section 2523. Eligibility of service providers

Prenatal care service
  providers are eligible to participate in the  prenatal  care  assistance
  program,   if   they   satisfy  the  standards  for  providing  services
  established by the commissioner pursuant to section twenty-five  hundred
  twenty-two  of this title, have not been disqualified from participation
  in the medical assistance program authorized by title eleven of  article
  five  of  the  social  services  law,  agree  to  serve eligible service
  recipients and meet one of the following requirements:
    (a) a medical care facility certified pursuant to article twenty-eight
  or forty-four of this chapter which provides  ambulatory  prenatal  care
  services;
    (b) a medical care facility certified pursuant to article twenty-eight
  or  forty-four  of this chapter whose operating certificates are pending
  amendment to include  prenatal  care  services,  contingent  upon  their
  receipt of such final certification;
    (c) agencies and facilities whose applications for establishment under
  article  twenty-eight  of  this  chapter  are  under  review and contain
  provision for prenatal care services, contingent upon their  receipt  of
  such final certification;
    (d)  a  licensed physician practicing on an individual or group basis;
  or
    (e) a certified nurse midwife practicing on  an  individual  or  group
  basis.