Amanda D'Ambrosio

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

New York enacted a law this year to raise how much health insurers pay for behavioral health services, an attempt to funnel resources into the state’s overburdened system. But six months since the law went into effect, some providers are still waiting to get paid. Gov.

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

New Yorkers are using the 988 suicide crisis hotline at a higher rate than residents of most other states, a new study found. Roughly 3.6% of New Yorkers used the hotline, the fourth-highest rate in the U.S., according to research published Monday in the academic journal JAMA Network Open. The national use rate was 2.6%, the researchers found. The hotline, which launched in July 2022, has fielded 1.4 million calls, texts and chats in New York and 16 million contacts nationally, the study found.

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

ESSENTIAL PLAN WARNING: The Fiscal Policy Institute sent a letter to New York State representatives on Tuesday urging them to reject changes to the Essential Plan in the House reconciliation bill that could slash funding for the plan by 57%.

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

Nearly four years after the city greenlit a controversial proposal from the New York Blood Center to build a 16-story life science tower on the Upper East Side, the project remains at a standstill. The City Council in 2021 paved the way for the Blood Center to build a $750 million commercial tower at its headquarters at 310 E. 67th St., a project the nonprofit claimed would rescue its crumbling, 1930s-era research facility and help kickstart the city’s developing life science economy.

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

State lawmakers passed a bill on Monday to allow physicians to give terminally ill patients a fatal dose of medicine to end their lives, sending the measure to the governor’s desk for the first time since it was introduced a decade ago. The state Senate voted 35 to 27, mostly along party lines, to pass the Medical Aid in Dying Act, which would allow patients given less than six months to live to request a fatal prescription from their doctor.