(a) "Health care plan" means a health insurer including an insurer licensed to write accident and health insurance subject to article thirty-two of the insurance law; a corporation organized pursuant to article forty-three of the insurance law; a municipal cooperative health benefit plan certified pursuant to article forty-seven of the insurance law; a health maintenance organization certified pursuant to article forty-four of this chapter; a student health plan established or maintained pursuant to section one thousand one hundred twenty-four of the insurance law or a self-funded employee welfare benefit plan.
(b) "Health care professional" means an appropriately licensed, registered or certified health care professional pursuant to title eight of the education law.
(c) "Hospital" means a general hospital as defined in subdivision ten of section two thousand eight hundred one of this chapter.
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