150.958        Unintended Consequences of Value-Based Payment Models-Conflicts of Interest

The Medical Society of the State of New York will seek to amend the New York State Patient’s Hospital Bill of Rights to include the following patient rights:

  1. The right, at all points in the patient’s care, to demand medical decisions that are informed by physicians.
  2. The right to an unbiased medical opinion including information about treatments or services that are not reimbursed by the patient’s insurance company or may be better managed at another institution.

(HOD 2022-57 – partially adopted/Resolved 3 referred to Council; Reaffirmed HOD 2023 in lieu of Resolution 60)