120.000 HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE

120.990            Physician Notification of Insurance Payments Made Directly to Patients

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.

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120.989           Routine and Refractive Eye Examination

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

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120.987          Multiple Product Lines

120.987          Multiple Product Lines: MSSNY through the American Medical Association will seek Federal Legislative action to challenge health insurers who mandate the commitment of physicians to all (or multiple) product lines under a single contractual agreement as a condition for their participation with such organizations.(Council 12/18/97; Reaffirmed HOD 2014; Reaffirmed HOD

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120.986           Non-Assignability Clauses in Health Insurance Contracts

120.986           Non-Assignability Clauses in Health Insurance Contracts: MSSNY supports the patients’ right to assign their health insurance benefits to their physician, and shall seek legislation that would prohibit non-assignability of benefits clauses from all health insurance contracts.  (HOD 1999-61; Reaffirmed HOD 01-66; HOD 2008-56; Reaffirmed HOD 2009-63; Reaffirmed HOD 2019)

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