NYSSA Membership – A Strategic Investment in Your Team
Measurable Financial Value
PGA Annual Meeting – FREE for NYSSA Members
- Organizations sending multiple faculty realize substantial savings through:
- Complimentary registration
- Up to 40 CME credits earned
- Reduced external CME costs
For many departments and groups, PGA registration savings can offset a significant portion of membership costs.
Included CME Access
- FREE Education On Demand courses
- Required Infection Control CME course included
Reduces out-of-pocket CME expenses for faculty.
Cost-Saving Member Benefits
- Insurance and vendor discounts
- Access to legal consultation for NYS practice-related matters
- Sphere – NYSSA’s quarterly digital membership publication
Helps mitigate risk and reduce administrative burden.
Advocacy That Protects Your Specialty in New York
NYSSA represents anesthesiology in Albany where scope, reimbursement, and regulatory decisions directly affecting your organization are made. Together with ASA’s national advocacy work, NYSSA ensures anesthesiology is represented at every level of government.
Your membership helps:
- Support safe anesthesia care for patients
- Protect reimbursement
- Monitor scope-of-practice developments
- Anticipate regulatory and legislative changes
Early Policy Intelligence
Your leadership receives advance updates on legislative and regulatory developments before they create operational or financial challenges. Early awareness supports better planning and fewer surprises.
Faculty Development & Leadership Opportunities
- Committee participation opportunities
- State-level leadership pathways
- Increased faculty visibility within NY anesthesia
Supports faculty retention, recognition, and leadership development.
Simplified Administration Through Group Billing
Organizations utilizing annual group billing:
✔ Ensure all faculty maintain active membership
✔ Streamline renewals and dues management
✔ Allow faculty to use CME funds efficiently
✔ Support the sustained advocacy function of anesthesiology in NYS
Trusted by Department Leaders Across New York
“We rely on group billing to ensure all of our faculty receive NYSSA communications and have access to the PGA meeting. Furthermore, it helps to ensure the sustained function of this organization which is so important to advocate for our specialty.”
Meg A. Rosenblatt, M.D., FASA
Site Chair, Department of Anesthesiology at Mount Sinai Morningside and West Hospitals
“Utilizing group billing has been a wonderful feature for us. We feel it is very important to keep our faculty engaged and participatory in both the NYSSA as well as the ASA and this allows us to assist our members in easily utilizing their CME money to keep their memberships current.”
Melissa A. Ehlers, M.D.
Interim Chair, Department of Anesthesiology at Albany Medical Center
“The Department of Anesthesiology at SUNY Upstate Medical University believes that group billing is convenient for both faculty and residents. It also encourages participation in activities organized by the ASA and NYSSA. We believe it is our responsibility to support initiatives that help ensure the future success of anesthesiology.”
Fenghua Li, M.D., FASA
Interim Chair, Department of Anesthesiology at SUNY Upstate Medical University
Join 25 + Anesthesiology Departments and Practice Groups Across New York State
Downstate / NYC Region
- Greater New York Anesthesia Services, P.C.
- Hospital for Special Surgery
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Jamaica Anesthesia Associates
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Montefiore Medical Center
- New York Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, P.C.
- Park Slope Anesthesia
- Stony Brook Anesthesiology
- Suffolk Anesthesiology
- United NYC Medical Associates, LLC
- Weill Cornell Medical Center
- York Anesthesiologists, PLLC
Upstate / Capital / Western NY
- Abbott Anesthesiologist Associates, P.C.
- Albany Medical Center
- Anesthesia Group of Albany
- Cayuga Anesthesia Associates
- Great Lakes Anesthesiology, P.C.
- Riverside Associates in Anesthesia, P.C.
- Schenectady Anesthesia
- Singular Anesthesia Services, PLLC
- Trinity Health Anesthesia Group of New York
- University of Rochester Medical Center
- Upstate Medical Anesthesiology Group
- Westchester Anesthesiologists, P.C.
Protect Our Specialty in New York.
Reduce Costs.
Develop Leaders.
For group membership information:
Will Burdett
will@nyssa-pga.org | 929-205-7842
