Doctors CouncilCOVID-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
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/
Shifting patients from the ER to Primary Care. How will it affect us as doctors? What should issues should we keep our eye on?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-hopes-to-ease-strain-on-its-emergency-rooms-11563294021
More Nurses protest staff shortages in their hospitals. Staff shortages aren’t limited to nurses. Should Doctors be taking a stand publically too? What do you think?
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/human-capital-and-risk/u-of-chicago-nurses-to-picket-monday-over-patient-safety-concerns.html
“Somewhere in between our current system and Single payer? Worth a shot? What do you think?”
https://www.salon.com/2019/06/20/medicare-for-america-a-health-care-plan-worth-a-closer-look/