News & Updates

Vireo Health sees replacing opioids with medical marijuana Albany Times Union A medical marijuana company operating in Minnesota and New York is proposing cannabis as a potential way to wean […]

Medicaid cost shift to NYC a budget issue, legislator says Newsday Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposal to shift some state costs for the Medicaid health care system to New York […]

Protecting Employees’ Health Data New York Times Does your back hurt? Do you have diabetes? Are you taking birth control pills? Read Full Article The State Assault on Planned Parenthood […]

Why Prescription Drugs Aren’t Part of Obamacare Morning Consult After six years, the Affordable Care Act has extended health care coverage to millions of people. But affordability problems remain, most […]

One of New York’s largest health insurers on verge of expansion Albany Business Review One of New York’s largest health insurers, which has doubled its Albany workforce to more than […]

Justices Divided Over Health Law Birth Control Plan New York Times The Supreme Court seems deeply divided over the arrangement devised by the Obama administration to spare faith-based groups from […]

More medical marijuana companies, broader access, information about doctors, among proposed tweaks Albany Business Review The slow progress is because the law enacted by the legislature and the regulations implemented […]

Zucker issues exemptions to e-prescribing mandate Capital New York State health commissioner Howard Zucker issued a blanket waiver for the state’s new e-prescribing law, allaying some concerns that the software […]

Cuomo scoffs at Health Republic bailout Democrat and Chronicle Gov. Andrew Cuomo offered little sympathy to health insurers and hospitals looking for a bailout after the demise of Health Republic […]

The End of Prescriptions as We Know Them in New York New York Times One morning this month, Silvia Cota, a nurse supervisor in the emergency room at Lenox Hill […]