MSSNY Praises Governor for Helping to Ensure that Patients Have Coverage for Physician Visits from Home

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

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March 17, 2020

For Immediate Release

 

MSSNY Praises Governor for Helping to Ensure that Patients Have Coverage for Physician Visits from Home


Medicare Expands Telehealth Coverage


MSSNY Continues to Urge Self-Insured ERISA Plans Covering New York Employees Follow Same Rules

 

Statement attributable to:
Art Fougner, MD
President, Medical Society of the State of New York

“We thank Governor Cuomo and the various state agencies for the many steps they have taken to ensure patients have coverage for virtual visits with their physicians from their own homes.  It is also important that Medicare has also gone forward to expand telehealth coverage. This is tremendously important in our joint efforts to help to ‘flatten the curve’, preventing patients from being unnecessarily exposed to the coronavirus and ensuring the continuity of treatment for these patients during this very difficult time. We will also continue to urge that self-insured ERISA plans covering New York employees, not subject to state regulation, follow these same rules.”

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Founded in 1807, the Medical Society of the State of New York is the state’s principal non-profit professional organization for physicians, residents and medical students of all specialties. Its mission is to represent the interests of patients and physicians to assure quality healthcare services for all.

 

Media Contact:
Roseann Raia
Medical Society of the State of New York
516.488.6100 x 302
rraia@mssny.org