225.999 Physician Controlled Peer Review:
MSSNY, along with the AMA, endorses peer review that is physician controlled and is applicable to all patients and not just specific groups as currently exists. Continual development and promotion of new procedures for physician assessment of the quality and efficiency of medical care must be sought. This development and assessment can best be accomplished by organized physician groups at the local level regardless of funding source. The local review approval by local physician- sponsored organizations must be coordinated on a statewide level, always keeping in mind that physician-controlled peer review through locally sponsored physician organizations is the basis for effective peer review.
It is, therefore, the position of the Medical Society of the State of New York that the State Society should coordinate and assist in implementing mechanisms for peer review for all patients and that such coordination will ensure the review being done by physicians at the local level. (HOD 1981; Reaffirmed Council 3/9/95; Reaffirmed HOD 2014)
