N.Y. Public Health Law § 4926: Medical debt reporting prohibited in contracts with collection entities

§ 4926. Medical debt reporting prohibited in contracts with collection

entities. A hospital licensed under article twenty-eight of this

chapter, a health care professional authorized under title eight of the

education law, or an ambulance service certified under article thirty of

this chapter:

1. shall not furnish any portion of a medical debt to a consumer

reporting agency; and

2. shall include a provision in any contract entered into with a

collection entity for the purchase or collection of medical debt that

prohibits the reporting of any portion of such medical debt to a

consumer reporting agency.