TAKING AWAY PHYSICIAN APPEAL RIGHTS IS A GREEN LIGHT TO INSURERS TO NARROW PATIENT CARE NETWORKS

TAKING AWAY PHYSICIAN APPEAL RIGHTS IS A GREEN LIGHT TO INSURERS TO NARROW PATIENT CARE NETWORKS

On behalf of 20,000 physician and student members of the Medical Society of the State of New York, and the hundreds of thousands of patients we treat each year, we thank the Assembly and Senate for rejecting within their respective one-House Budgets a proposal within Part E of the Executive Budget HMH Article 7 bill that would completely and unfairly extinguish the right to appeal an underpayment by a Medicaid health plan to the state’s Independ…