Progress in State Budget This Week; Ongoing Physician Advocacy Essential Click to Enlarge The legislative leaders’ announcement this week of a resolution to one of the thorny policy issues holding up the State Budget advances the possibility that a final Budget could be adopted by the
MSSNY Joins with Patient and Provider Groups to Reduce Health Insurer Audit Abuse Click to Enlarge MSSNY has joined with several other provider and patient advocacy groups in support of legislation (A.3365, Lavine/S.5209, Scarcella-Spanton) to substantially reduce the time frame for health insurance plans to recoup
Help Us Advocate for Prior Authorization Reform Legislation: Take Our Survey Click to Enlarge Excessive prior authorization demands from health insurers impose overwhelming burdens that can cause unnecessary delays for patients in obtaining needed treatment and medications. Delay in authorization of prescriptions, tests or procedures can cause
Senator Hoylman Introduces Prior Authorization Reform Bill Click to Enlarge With negotiations for the State Budget expected to wrap up in the next few weeks, MSSNY’s advocacy focus for the end of the Legislative Session will shift to working with several groups in strong support of
Continued State Budget Impasse; Ongoing Physician Advocacy Essential Click to Enlarge Yesterday’s passage of yet another short Budget extender until April 15 continues to “leave open” to further negotiations many of the problematic healthcare provisions of the State Budget. We thank the State Assembly and State Senate for excluding
Capital Update: April 11, 2025 Click to Enlarge Physician Advocacy Continues to Support Technical Fix of Unworkable Financial Consent Requirement Created in Last Year’s State Budget Advocacy to Preserve Medicaid Coverage for Millions of New Yorkers Continued Grassroots Push Needed to Reverse Medicare Cuts
Advocacy to Preserve Medicaid Coverage for Millions of New Yorkers Click to Enlarge Physicians are also urged to advocate to help protect patient access to community-based physician care by opposing steep cuts to Medicaid coverage and payment for care that is being considered by Congress as
MSSNY Continues Push to New York Congressional Delegation to Reverse Medicare Cuts Click to Enlarge Despite intense advocacy efforts by MSSNY together with the AMA and countless medical associations across the country, the recently enacted Continuing Resolution (CR) passed by Congress to fund the government through
Physician Advocacy Continues to Support Technical Fix of Unworkable Financial Consent Requirement Created in Last Year’s State Budget Click to Enlarge Physicians should continue to urge their legislators Revise Requirement to ask that they support a proposal, Part L, in the Executive Budget HMH bill to provide a technical fix to
State Budget Negotiations Likely Headed to Overtime; Ongoing Physician Advocacy Needed. Click to Enlarge With the April 1 State Budget deadline rapidly approaching, it appears we are headed towards passage of a short Budget extender next week to give more time to the Governor, Senate
