160.985 Destruction of the Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Practice of Medicine by Insurers:
MSSNY will seek legislation to discourage activities by insurers and other third parties that weaken or destroy the doctor-patient relationship including, but not limited to, the profusion of telephone based evaluation and referral by non-physicians.Where managed care plans and insurers utilize nurses for “on-call” triage purposes, such nurses shall be licensed in New York State and provide, establish and maintain appropriate medical documentation of their activities as well as timely follow-up documentation to the patient’s primary care physician regarding the nurse’s assessment and recommendation; and that where MCOs provide triage services they must assume the liability for adverse events which may ensue. (HOD 1998-75; Reaffirmed HOD 2014; Reaffirmed HOD 2024)
