Empire Advancing Payments to Certain Independent Primary Care Physicians


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MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
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For Immediate Release
May 5, 2020 

Empire Advancing Payments to Certain Independent Primary Care Physicians

Statement Attributable to:
Art Fougner, M.D.
President, Medical Society of the State of New York

To support these essential providers during the COVID-19 crisis, Empire is advancing payments to certain independent primary care physician organizations and multi-specialty groups that include primary care. Empire (and Anthem) will offer these payments to hundreds of physician organizations across the country, beginning in May.

Dr. Art Fougner, President of the Medical Society of the State of New York, applauds Empire and Anthem, its parent company, for this action for physicians during the pandemic.

“With physicians reporting dramatic drops in patient visits and revenue in our collective response to the Covid-19 pandemic, we thank Empire Blue Cross for implementing a program to help its network physicians with an advance payment program. It will provide a lifeline to these practices until regular patient visits can resume.

“We are also aware that United and CDPHP have, importantly, also adopted advance programs.  We urge other health insurers to similarly work with their network physicians to implement advance payment programs.”

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MSSNY Contact:
Roseann Raia
Communications / Marketing
Medical Society of the State of New York
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