For services and expenses direct or indirect, including travel outside the state, pursuant to the state public health law, various titles of the federal social security act, the federal clean air and solid waste disposal acts, the terms of various gifts, bequests and donations, and the terms of various federal grants. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner of health shall not enter into any contracts with utilization review agents without the approval of the director of the budget. The provisions of chapter 539 of the laws of 1982 are any provision of law to the contrary, the commissioner may utilize portions of the monies for the several preventive health programs, both state and federally supported, appropriated herein, for purpose of awarding one or more contracts to health care providers in areas of the state with high mortality and morbidity rates and limited availability of preventive health care, for the purpose of testing the feasibility of delivering preventive health services in a coordinated, integrated manner. |