Amanda D'Ambrosio

2 days ago | crainsnewyork.com | Amanda D'Ambrosio |Ethan Geringer-Sameth

BABY FORMULA: The state is planning to ship more than $13,500 worth of baby formula from the supplier Paragon to families in Rochester, aiming to repay parents after the company illegally jacked up the price of formula during the 2022 shortage, Attorney General Letitia James announced Monday.

2 days ago | crainsnewyork.com | Amanda D'Ambrosio

When New York City Health + Hospitals needs a fixer, it looks to Dr. Eric Wei. He was the temporary CEO at Elmhurst Hospital after it was ravaged by Covid-19. He briefly took the helm at Harlem Hospital as employees left in droves over Covid vaccine mandates. Just last year he served as the interim CEO of Lincoln Hospital for four months as it continued to battle overdose deaths. Wei, an emergency physician, took on a new challenge in January when he became the CEO of Bellevue Hospital.

2 days ago | crainsnewyork.com | Amanda D'Ambrosio

The state budget funneled millions into a biomedical workforce development program to recruit top-tier research talent to local medical institutions. The $254 billion budget signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul last week allocated $10 million to the New York Fund for Innovation in Research and Scientific Talent, a pool of money that helps medical schools recruit and retain leading life science researchers.

3 days ago | crainsnewyork.com | Amanda D'Ambrosio

New Yorkers in the market for an x-ray, colonoscopy or surgery have a new way to look up how much a medical procedure will cost them ahead of time. Patients Rights Advocate, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that aggregates public data on hospital prices, is set to launch a new price transparency tool today to help New Yorkers search the costs for a specific medical procedure based on the hospital where they receive care and how much their insurance will cover.

5 days ago | crainsnewyork.com | Amanda D'Ambrosio

Hospitals and other medical providers will see an uptick in funding in the state’s $34.2 billion Medicaid budget, a significant bump and welcome relief as they contend with uncertain federal funding and looming cuts. The state’s $254 billion budget, passed by lawmakers late Thursday, includes a series of health payment rate increases, including a 10% reimbursement bump for hospital outpatient services and the resurrection of a $500 million fund for financially distressed hospitals.