Divorce and Physicians: Navigating the Personal and Financial Realities Click to Enlarge While physicians are less likely to divorce than the general population, about 21% of surgeons and 18% of non-surgeon physicians experience this life-changing event. Divorce can be especially complex for doctors, involving the valuation
For Medical Students: How Advocacy and Organized Medicine Make Your Residency Application Stand Out Click to Enlarge Editor’s Note: Submitted By Kylee Borger, MD, MSSNY Resident/Fellow Section Secretary/Treasurer, and Anna Heffron, MD, MSSNY Resident/Fellow Section Councilor. If you are a member and would like to contribute
MSSNY Investigates Automatic Downcoding: Share Your Experience to Strengthen Advocacy Click to Enlarge MSSNY is contacting physicians statewide to assess the impact of insurance companies' automatic downcoding, a growing concern that undermines fair reimbursement and burdens physician practices. As of October 1, Cigna and Aetna
Help Us Help You Click to Enlarge Colleagues: Cigna and Aetna both have announced and/or begun an exercise where they are systematically downcoding from a level 4 to 3 on all visits for a subset of physicians. Cigna announced that this will only apply to
