N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law § 351: Preferred provider organizations; contracts

§ 351. Preferred provider organizations; contracts. The state

insurance fund, any stock corporation, mutual corporation or reciprocal

insurer authorized to transact the business of workers' compensation

insurance in this state or self-insurer may contract with a preferred

provider organization to deliver all medical services mandated by this

chapter, provided such contract takes effect on or after January first,

nineteen hundred ninety-seven and the insurer or the employer has no

financial interest in the preferred provider organization. Where there

is a duty to collectively bargain, an employer shall collectively

bargain the use and implementation of a preferred provider organization

with the authorized collective bargaining agent of its employees.