Health Headlines for Thursday, June 9
Mixed reviews for Cuomo’s draft opioid proposal
Politico
As the Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo continue to negotiate over how to address the state’s growing heroin and opioid crisis before the session ends next week, advocates, industry officials and lawmakers are already criticizing some of the proposals the administration has been floating.
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Top industry regulator’s priority: Survival of health insurance companies
Albany Business Review
Reviewing health insurance premium increases is a matter of balance, the presumptive new top New York regulator for insurance companies told lawmakers.
People of color demand treatment, voice in heroin epidemic
Albany Times Union
Dozens of black and Hispanic demonstrators and minority legislators who represent inner-city districts pledged to raise their voices and to demand a fair share of treatment funding as the battle front in the heroin epidemic has shifted to largely white suburban areas.
Study: Obamacare health exchange has gone smoothly in New York
Albany Times Union/Blog
The Rockefeller Institute is out with a report that concludes New York has done a good job launching and then smoothly operating its Obamacare health exchange.
Awards tout wellness in the workplace
Rochester Business Journal
The 2016 Wealth of Health Awards were handed out Wednesday at a luncheon attended by more than 300 people at the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center.
Roswell Park, Kaleida planning new outpatient pediatric center
Buffalo Business First
Two Buffalo hospitals have filed plans for a $5.7 million outpatient unit for pediatric services on the ground floor of Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
WCA merger application to be considered Thursday
Buffalo Business First
HealthNow New York Inc. is joining with other concerned organizations in urging the state to take its time as it considers allowing a merger of WCA Hospital in Jamestown into UPMC, one of Pennsylvania’s largest health systems.
$2M deer vasectomy plan leaps forward
Silive
The city wants to spend big so there’s no bang for Staten Island’s bucks.
FDA Eases Paperwork To Help Some Patients Get Experimental Drugs
Kaiser Health News
The Food and Drug Administration removed an obstacle from of its “compassionate use” policy this month, eliminating some paperwork that physicians must do to obtain experimental drugs for some patients with immediately life-threatening illnesses.
Troubled Teva plant in Hungary faces an FDA crackdown
Stat News
The latest broken link in the pharmaceutical supply chain has appeared in Hungary, where Teva Pharmaceuticals has suspended production at a plant following a crackdown by the US Food and Drug Administration.