New York Laws
Title 2 - General Provisions
24 - Disclosure.

(a) "Health care plan" means a health insurer including an insurer
licensed to write accident and health insurance subject to article
thirty-two of the insurance law; a corporation organized pursuant to
article forty-three of the insurance law; a municipal cooperative health
benefit plan certified pursuant to article forty-seven of the insurance
law; a health maintenance organization certified pursuant to article
forty-four of this chapter; a student health plan established or
maintained pursuant to section one thousand one hundred twenty-four of
the insurance law or a self-funded employee welfare benefit plan.
(b) "Health care professional" means an appropriately licensed,
registered or certified health care professional pursuant to title eight
of the education law.
(c) "Hospital" means a general hospital as defined in subdivision ten
of section two thousand eight hundred one of this chapter.