120.998 Reimbursement When Patients Refuse to Sign Health Insurance Forms: MSSNY is urgently requesting the New York State Department of Insurance to draft measures which would ensure that health insurance companies be obliged to reimburse physicians for documented medical services performed in accordance with the patient’s insurance plan whether or not the
120.997 Truth in Health Insurance: MSSNY takes the position that all health insurance literature and contracts should be mandated to use a standardized form, written in laymen’s terms (easy to understand language), wherein excluded diseases, diagnoses, and medical procedures are appropriately identified in policies of contract holders. As a means of
120.996 Standardized Insurance Claim Forms: SUNSET HOD 2014
120.995 Parity of Coverage for Mental Illness, Alcoholism and Substance Abuse in Medical Benefits Programs endorsed by MSSNY: SUNSET HOD 2014
120.994 Insurers To Cover Hepatitis B Immunization: SUNSET HOD 2014 (Reaffirmed HOD 2024)
120.993 Smoking Cessation Reimbursement: SUNSET HOD 2014
120.992 Insurance Companies To Cover Screening Mammography: MSSNY will seek requiring all health insurance products to cover mammography whenever the patient’s physician deems it medically appropriate. (HOD 1997-255; Modified and reaffirmed HOD 2014)
120.991 Certain Types Of Well Examinations To Be Covered By All Insurers: SUNSET HOD 2014
120.990 Physician Notification of Insurance Payments Made Directly to Patients: MSSNY will seek legal or regulatory action to require that insurance carriers be mandated to notify physicians of the amount and date of insurance claim payments made directly to their subscribers, regardless of the physician’s participation status in the plan.
120.989 Routine and Refractive Eye Examination: It is MSSNY’s position that third-party payors make it abundantly clear to patients that eyeglass riders, routine eye examinations, vision care services, vision benefits, vision aid benefits, vision care benefits, eyeglass benefits and any such benefits, as desirable as they may be, do not
