§ 585. Definitions. Whenever used in this title:

1. "Health services purveyor" means any person, firm, partnership,
group, association, corporation or professional corporation, or any
agent, employee, fiduciary, employer or representative thereof,
including but not limited to a physician, dentist, podiatrist or
chiropractor, either in individual practice, group practice or employed
in a facility owned by any person, group, association, firm, partnership
or corporation hiring any of the aforementioned practitioners, who
provide health or health related services.

2. "Clinical laboratory" shall have the same meaning as is set forth
in subdivision one of section five hundred seventy-one of this article.