As care costs spiral, Trump’s transparency order flatlines
By TERRY LYNAM // Comparison shopping has never been easier – whether you’re buying a car, a home or pair of shoes, online searches retrieve price information in seconds, enabling…
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Poll: Folks want to ‘age well’ (but don’t always act like it)
By GREGORY ZELLER // New Yorkers are generally concerned about staying healthy as they age – but most don’t take precautions to improve their odds. That’s one of the bigger…
As Big Medicine battles back, breaking up is hard to do
By TERRY LYNAM // Whether it’s a physician network or an insurance provider or a pharmaceutical manufacturer, the key to success in the ultra-competitive healthcare environment is to get bigger…
How to scale up, by one of the best to ever do it
By TOM MARINER // The world’s largest healthcare-solutions provider sure didn’t start that way. But what began in 1932 as a neighborhood pharmacy in Queens has certainly evolved into a…
Is there a nurse in the house? A few more, thanks to this
By GREGORY ZELLER // A unique joint-admissions partnership between a leading State University of New York medical school and a top regional university will significantly expand Long Island’s nursing-education capacity….
As ‘affordability’ surges, nonprofits are lost in translation
By JEFFREY L. REYNOLDS // Everyone is talking about affordability. Newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Gov. Kathy Hochul – even President Donald Trump, who recently launched his…
ICE backlash threatens bipartisan public-health revival
By TERRY LYNAM // The long-simmering debate over the future of federal health spending – including Obamacare subsidies – has been largely overshadowed by the Trump Administration’s pursuit of Greenland…
Poll: Wearable health devices rock! (If you wear them)
By GREGORY ZELLER // Wearable health devices are having a profoundly positive effect, according to the latest Mount Sinai South Nassau Truth in Medicine Poll – at least, among those who wear…
No 1002: U.S. healthcare is making us sick! So we’re going quantum, talking like pirates and doing the Batusi
One flu over, cuckoo: It’s Friday, dear readers, and we are absolutely thrilled to be coming at you with this regularly scheduled week-in-review edition of your favorite innovation newsletter….
The poor prognosis of politicized public health
By TERRY LYNAM // The nation’s public-health professionals are in full-blown panic over the dumpster fire that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has ignited within the U.S. Centers for Disease Control…
Wearing it out: Questions abound on divisive devices
By JEFFREY L. REYNOLDS // President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, approved last week by a sleep-deprived U.S. Congress, slashes healthcare spending and potentially impacts Medicaid coverage for millions of…
No. 983: In which we set sail, lose a good president, explore horizons and devour cookies (and doughnuts)
Hot (off the presses): Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we sweat out the first full workweek of July – and we do mean sweat. It certainly has been…
Deregulation: Cutting red tape is not so black-and-white
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // Long Island is on the front lines of the battle between the federal government and New York State over Trump 2.0’s aggressive pursuit of government…
‘Unprecedented’ opportunity in Northwell megamerger
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s official: Nuvance Health is now part of Northwell Health. The merger of the two health systems – first announced in February 2024, greenlit last August…
In Nuvance, another big win for Northwell’s bold leader
By TERRY LYNAM // I’ve known Michael Dowling since 1988, when I was working in the press office of former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who tapped Dowling to become…