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The health department has blown past deadlines to implement legislation encouraging lifesaving transplants — along with at least five other laws.
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Formerly incarcerated “peers” offer drug counseling to people in county jails — when they can get in.
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While the governor awaits guidance from the federal government, thousands of undocumented New Yorkers can’t afford to go to the doctor.
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The move will leave tens of thousands of undocumented New Yorkers uninsured.
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The law was supposed to deliver safer staffing ratios. Instead, it raised tensions at one in four New York hospitals.
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Dozens of law professors are raising the alarm over Judge Hector LaSalle’s rulings on ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ and union protections. Hispanic and Latino lawyers’ groups say his appointment would be a win for diversity.
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The ruling puts pressure on the city to finalize a Medicare Advantage plan for a quarter million retirees — and may lead to the elimination of Senior Care.
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The governor has three weeks and 265 potential laws to consider. New York Focus compiled them all.
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Robert Adams alleges that a guard sodomized him with a baton. A year-long investigation into his story uncovered a system plagued by retaliation and primed for abuse.
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The City Council must enable budget-cutting new health insurance options for retirees, warns Eric Adams’s chief labor negotiator — or City Hall will eliminate existing insurance plans.
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A little-known federal initiative, the 340B Drug Pricing Program, supports services that wouldn’t otherwise get reimbursed.
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1199 SIEU says it wants to end 24-hour shifts - but it has opposed city and state bills that would do so, and some question the sincerity of its objections.
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The mayor and major city unions plan to press the City Council to clear a path for a privatized Medicare plan for retired city workers.
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Prison officials had already seen his genitals three times. But the superintendent ordered a more invasive exam, the lawsuit alleges. (Note: detailed descriptions.)
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A plan to move a family medicine clinic in a low-income Bronx neighborhood has sparked backlash from patients and staff.
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Heat kills hundreds of New Yorkers every summer - but health experts say a “cold weather bias” keeps policymakers from prioritizing the issue.
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With the plan tied up in court, insurers Elevance Health and Empire BlueCross BlueShield pulled out of a controversial deal to switch retired city workers to privately run health insurance.
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Hundreds of thousands of city workers and their dependents could have their healthcare shifted to a cheaper plan by 2024, documents show.
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A bill to increase kidney donation rates is stuck in the “traffic jam” of the Assembly.
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At the urging of the correction officers union, the prison agency is restricting packages to private vendors that charge steep markups and have limited selections.