N.Y. Public Health Law § 2724: Commissioner; additional functions, powers and duties

§ 2724. Commissioner; additional functions, powers and duties. In

order to further the declared purposes of this title, the commissioner

shall have the following functions, powers and duties:

1. to develop programs for screening, evaluation and treatment of

hypertension;

2. to enter into contracts and agreements to provide for the

screening, evaluation and treatment of hypertension pursuant to this

section by July first, nineteen hundred eighty-two;

3. to require as the commissioner may determine to be appropriate that

any facility established, incorporated, licensed or regulated pursuant

to the provisions of article twenty-eight or forty-seven of this

chapter, test for hypertension as part of their ordinary and regular

care or treatment of patients and as necessary screen, treat and

diagnose the incidence of hypertension;

4. to apply for special grants from the federal government and any

institution making grants for such purposes and use any monies so

obtained to supplement any other monies made available from any source

for the purposes of this title;

5. to require persons receiving treatment for hypertension in any

center providing such treatment to pay a fee established by the

commissioner on a sliding fee scale based on the treatment recipient's

ability to pay after applying against the total cost of such treatment

the amounts received from third party payors.