N.Y. Public Health Law § 608: State aid; children and youth with special health care needs support services

§ 608. State aid; children and youth with special health care needs

support services. 1. Whenever the commissioner of health of any county

or part-county health district or, in a county lacking a county or

part-county health district, the medical director of the children and

youth with special health care needs support services program, or the

department of health of the city of New York, issues an authorization

for medical service for a child with physical disabilities, such county

or the city of New York shall be granted state aid in an amount of fifty

per centum of the amount expended in accordance with the rules and

regulations established by the commissioner, except that such state aid

reimbursement may be withheld if, on post-audit and review, the

commissioner finds that the medical service rendered and furnished was

not in conformance with a plan submitted by the municipality and with

the rules and regulations established by the commissioner or that the

recipient of the medical service was not a child with a physical

disability as defined in section two thousand five hundred eighty-one of

this chapter.

2. Whenever a court of any county issues an order for medical services

for any Indian child with a physical disability, residing on an Indian

reservation, such county shall be granted state aid in the amount of one

hundred percent of the amount expended in accordance with the standards

established by the commissioner. Such reimbursement shall be made from

any funds appropriated to the department for payment of state aid for

children with physical disabilities.

3. The clerk of the board of supervisors or other similar governing

body of each county, or chief fiscal officer of the city of New York

which has paid claims as provided herein shall, not oftener than once in

each month, transmit to the commissioner a certified statement in the

form prescribed by him, stating the amount expended for the purposes

specified herein, the date of each expenditure, and the purpose for

which it was made. Upon the receipt of such certified statement the

commissioner shall examine the same, and if such expenditures were made

as required by law he shall approve it and transmit it to the

comptroller for audit. The comptroller shall thereupon issue his warrant

in the amount specified in such approved statement for the payment

thereof out of moneys appropriated therefor to the county treasurer of

the county or chief fiscal officer of the city of New York.