165.976 Substituting Nurse Practitioners For Licensed Primary Care Physicians:
MSSNY will seek legislation prohibiting the substitution of licensed primary care physicians with nurse practitioners, and will continue its public opposition to replacing physicians with physician extenders. In recognition of a patient’s right to receive high quality medical care from appropriately trained health care professionals, and the lack of any credible studies which indicate that services provided by nurse practitioners are equal to those rendered by physicians, MSSNY will communicate to all appropriate state agencies and state officials its opposition to the Oxford Health Plan agreement with Columbia University and Presbyterian Medical Center and to similar activities engaged in by other managed care entities operating in New York State. (HOD 1997-71; Reaffirmed HOD 2014; Reaffirmed HOD 2024)
