The city health commissioner said a program to pay off medical debt will make New Yorkers’ “lives better.”

City officials on Monday announced $18 million will be used to purchase debt portfolios from local health care providers and hospitals.

“We are going to make hundreds and thousands of New Yorkers’ lives better today,” Commissioner Ashwin Vasan told NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Monday.

The new program will wipe out medical debt for up to 500,000 New Yorkers over the next several years, officials said.

There is no sign-up process;  chosen New Yorkers will be notified once their debt has been relieved.

Vasan said about 13% of New Yorkers carry about $500 of medical debt, which is roughly 900,000 New Yorkers.

“We’re addressing the most vulnerable in that category, about 500,000 [New Yorkers], and we’re going to make their lives meaningfully better today,” he said.