§ 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.