117.983: Quality of Care, Not Cost, Must be the Criterion Used in Online Patient Searches for Physicians MSSNY should seek legislation requiring health plans in New York State that offer online physician rankings to include, as part of their rankings, quality criteria such as following quality of care guidelines and
120.963 Retail Clinics: MSSNY will pursue legislation, regulation, or other appropriate means to (a) assure that a retail clinic that receives insurer reimbursement be required to comply with existing standards for the operation of medical practices; and (b) prohibit health plans from incentivizing the utilization of health
120.962 United States Health Care and Gratuitous Privatization: MSSNY supports those health care policies that favor insurance products to achieve the health care goals of quality, cost containment and interoperability, only when the evidence in support of the superiority of such insurance products is composed of unbiased,
117.982 Exemption Criteria for Electronic Health Record Adoption and Cloud-Based Electronic Health Record Packages The Medical Society of the State of New York will ask that the American Medical Association (AMA) not give up the fight for Electronic Health Records (EHR) exemptions and continue to petition the Centers for Medicare and
120.961 Impediments to Obtaining Pre-authorizations for Medically Indicated Diagnostic Tests: MSSNY will take appropriate steps including, if necessary, seeking the enactment of legislation and regulation, to eliminate unnecessary impediments imposed by health insurance companies to obtaining pre-authorization, including reducing the need and time for obtaining pre-authorization. (Council 3/3/08; Reaffirmed HOD 2014-58;
120.960 Assuring Seamless Coverage for Patients Changed from HMOroducts into PPO Products: SUNSET HOD 2019
117.981 Patient Consent for Uploading Patient Records to the SHINY-NY And RHIOs The Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) will seek legislation or regulation that requires patient consent for uploading patient records to Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) and the Statewide Health Information Network of New York (SHINY-NY).
120.959 Revision of the Federal Tort Claims Act: MSSNY will endorse the proposal that all patients whose care is funded in all or in part by federal funds, and/or whose care is delivered in facilities funded in all or in part by federal funds, such as those patients covered by
120.958 Eligibility for Enrollment in Family Health Plus: SUNSET HOD 2019
117.980 Shared Savings and I-STOP The Medical Society of the State of New York will urge the New York State Department of Health and Department of Financial Services to require health insurers to identify cost savings they have experienced as a result of compliance with the I-STOP law, and that the
