Advocacy Highlights

Please Urge Your Legislators to Oppose Latest Wrongful Death Liability Expansion Legislation Click to Enlarge Despite the fact that Governor Hochul has vetoed legislation three times in the last three years that would greatly expand damages awardable in wrongful death actions and dramatically increase physicians’ already staggeringly high liability insurance premiums, near-identical legislation (S4423/A6063)

House of Representatives’ Energy & Commerce Committee Releases Reconciliation Package on Medicaid & Medicare Click to Enlarge This week U.S. House of Representatives’ Energy & Commerce Committee released its much-anticipated spending proposals including for the Medicaid and Medicare programs. The bill was introduced using the reconciliation process,

MSSNY Fights for Legislation to Provide Physicians Due Process when a Health Insurer Does Not Renew Their Contract Click to Enlarge This week the New York State Senate passed legislation supported by MSSNY (S.1911-A, Rivera), which would amend the Public Health Law to provide physicians with due

Please Help us Advocate for Prior Authorization Reforms by Completing our Survey. Click to Enlarge MSSNY is advocating for multiple pieces of legislation (such as A.2352, McDonald/S.7470, Hoylman and A.3789, Weprin/S.7297, Hoylman) to reduce excessive prior authorization hassles imposed by health insurers on physicians seeking to

Physicians Urged to Take Action to Help Preserve Affordable Student Loan Repayment Options and Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Click to Enlarge On April 3, the U.S Department of Education announced it was initiating the federal rulemaking process to propose major changes to regulations governing various federal student