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
Congress Expanded Medicare Telehealth Coverage Through September Click to Enlarge A six-month extension of the COVID-era Medicare telehealth waivers was included in the Continuing Resolution (CR) passed by Congress and signed into law, continuing this expanded coverage until September 30, 2025. Telehealth waivers were set to expire on
Physician Advocacy Continues to Fix Unworkable Financial Consent Law Click to Enlarge This week the Assembly Health Committee unanimously advanced to the floor legislation (A.6773, Paulin) to revise the unworkable requirement enacted last year (put “on hold” by the NYS Department of Health) that requires a physician
