Doctors CouncilDOCTORS AND PATIENTS NEED HELP NOW!
We Need More N95 Masks and Ventilators Now! 1. Mobilize the full resources of the federal government to guarantee adequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for all healthcare workers on the front line, including by using the powers of… Read More
Backup childcare option for eligible Doctors Council members – NYCDOE Regional Enrichment Centers for COVID-19
Dear Doctors Council member: Working with New York City, along with other unions and stakeholders, we can share the following information from the City about Regional Enrichment Centers, the NYCDOE’s backup childcare option for health care workers, first responders,… Read More
COVID-19 Coronavirus Hotline
A Message to our Members on COVID-19 Dear Doctor Council member: We hope you, your family and your colleagues are doing as well as possible with all that is going on with the COVID-19 response dealing with this… Read More
Vital Call to Action!
Vital Call to Action! Please call Governor Cuomo and your NYS legislators & email your NYS legislators to tell them to reject a proposal contained in the Governor’s Budget bypassing existing due process protections for physicians and giving the State enormous… Read More
Doctors Council President, Frank Proscia, M.D., Named to City & State 100 most powerful New Yorkers in health.
President, Doctors Council SEIU – Frank Proscia, M.D. Dr. Frank Proscia was elected in 2014 to lead Doctors Council SEIU, the country’s largest union for doctors. A New York City native who grew up in a working-class family,… Read More
Urgent Call to Action!
Urgent Call to Action! Please call Governor Cuomo and your NYS legislators & email your NYS legislators to let them know that you object to Medicaid cuts, the impact on NYC and H+H, and that it will make it… Read More
Contract Action
Dear Doctors Council members: The time for H+H and the affiliates (Mount Sinai, NYU, PAGNY and CDA) to settle our contracts is now! We have been in bargaining since last year and have received no substantive proposals to… Read More
Costs are going up. Consolidation is partially to blame. How will this affect patients? What affect will it have on doctors if any?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/health-care-spending-soars-in-new-york-state-11564459260
Non-Medical Switching of medicines; an innocuous cost savings for hospitals or more administrative interference with Doctors’ professional practice?
https://www.cleveland.com/business/2019/07/ohio-doctors-patients-frustrated-by-policy-that-requires-switching-medications-survey-finds.html
“If past is an indicator, some say hospital use will not rise under Medicare-for-All. Does this assuage doctors concerns?”
https://morningconsult.com/2019/07/22/study-aca-medicaid-medicare-expanded-insurance-yet-hospital-use-didnt-rise/