NEW YORK — The Mount Sinai Health System stopped offering doctors’ appointments to new patients on specific government-subsidized insurance plans this month, then mysteriously erased any mention of the change from its website.
The change went into effect Aug. 1, an archived webpage shows. The site said Mount Sinai would not accept new patients who were enrolled in Medicaid, Child Health Plus or the Essential Plan through insurance carriers EmblemHealth or Fidelis Care. The cutoff also applied to people enrolled in a Fidelis plan through the state’s Affordable Care Act marketplace or the Medicare Advantage program, including its Wellcare-branded plans for people eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare.
Anyone on those insurance plans who had not seen a Mount Sinai provider since July 31, 2025, would be deemed a new patient and unable to schedule an appointment for primary or specialty care, according to an internal memo about the update, which POLITICO reviewed. Fidelis patients receiving transplant-related care were among the few listed exceptions to the policy…