Legislation
SECTION 2724
Commissioner; additional functions, powers and duties
Public Health (PBH) CHAPTER 45, ARTICLE 27-B, TITLE 2
§ 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.
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.