Join Us for MSSNY Physician Advocacy Day
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MSSNY’s Physician Advocacy Day will take place on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Meeting Room 6 of the Empire State Plaza in Albany, from 7:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The timing is deliberate: both the Assembly and Senate will be finalizing their one-house budgets, setting the direction for negotiations with the Governor. This is when physician input is most likely to influence outcomes.
During the morning session, physicians, residents, and medical students will hear directly from legislative leaders and the Commissioner of Health, with opportunities to ask questions about healthcare priorities that affect patient access and practice stability. In the afternoon, participants will meet with their elected officials in sessions organized by local county medical societies, ensuring that physicians living and practicing in their districts raise their concerns.
This year’s advocacy agenda reflects challenges physicians encounter every day: advancing prior authorization reform to reduce care delays, protecting the independent dispute resolution process, defeating proposals that would shift excess malpractice insurance costs onto physicians, preserving physician-led team-based care, and maintaining the role of county medical societies in the workers’ compensation process.
Your colleagues across the state are facing these same pressures. Advocacy Day transforms individual frustrations into a unified professional voice, one that legislators are far more likely to hear and respect.
As the Voice of New York Physicians, MSSNY coordinates the logistics, policy briefings, and legislative meetings, so your time away from patients is efficient and focused on impact. If medicine is your profession, then health policy is your business.
