(b) If the department determines that making podiatrist profiles available is appropriate and feasible, the department, after consultation with the department of health, shall outline in such study an appropriate and cost effective method of presenting relevant and appropriate podiatric profiling information to the general public. The department shall submit such study to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly on or before November first, two thousand sixteen.
(c) If the department makes podiatrist profiles available as set forth in paragraph (b) of this subdivision, the department of health shall include on its website containing the physician profiles established pursuant to section twenty-nine hundred ninety-five-a of the public health law a link to the website on which such podiatrist profiles may be accessed and a statement describing the purpose of such link.