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Despite ongoing pandemic-related disruptions, New York’s hospitals bounced back financially in 2021, posting their strongest balance sheets in five years or more. Read More
As the Hochul administration presses for the creation of a "guaranty fund" to bail out failed health insurers, the state is quietly moving to seize a small company that could be the fund's first target. Read More
Friday's announcement of an amended labor contract for New York City-area hospitals and nursing homes sends a contradictory message about the financial condition of the state's health-care industry. Read More
During testimony on the state budget last week, a hospital industry official made an attention-grabbing but misleading claim – that New York's Medicaid payments to providers are "the worst in the United States." Read More
As New York marks the third anniversary of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, questions about how state leaders handled the crisis keep piling up. The latest disturbing revelation concerns the memoir that Andrew Cuomo published in October 202 Read More
The accumulated surplus of the state-run Essential Plan had ballooned to $9.9 billion as of the end of December, putting it on track to break $10 billion by the close of the fiscal year on March 31, according to newly obtained records from the comptroller's office. Read More
A City Council hearing in Manhattan on Thursday promises a rare scene in New York politics: hospitals playing defense. The council is debating whether to establish a watchdog agency focused on the high price of hospital care in New York, with a goal of helping the city and other employers contain the rapidly rising cost of health benefits for workers. Read More