10 Jan, 2020 Supreme Court 2020 Watch on Health Insurance By Leah Ranke Amid many other cases already announced for the second half of this Supreme Court Term is a request from a group of State Attorneys...
10 Jan, 2020 PBM Regulation: The Future of Independent Pharmacies in NY By Leah Ranke Pharmacists protested this week in Albany, NY ahead of the State of the State Address because the Governor has vetoed proposed...
31 Dec, 2019 At-Home DNA Kits Pose Security Risk By Leah Ranke Tens of millions of people have used at-home DNA kits like 23 and Me, or Ancestry.com. The results are interesting and fun. But are they...
31 Dec, 2019 Employer and Retirement Changes in Huge End-of-Year Spending Package: SECURE Act By Leah Ranke Employers and Retirement Plans reportedly earn big changes starting in 2020, including headlines noting highlights like these: Small...
26 Dec, 2019 Key Health Care Law Provisions in Court Ruling, CMS Rules, and the $1.4 Trillion Spending Law By Leah Ranke Signed into law on December 20th, 2019, the $1.4 trillion federal spending package includes repeal of significant health taxes in the...
23 Dec, 2019 What Happened to Lakeshore Health Care Center By Leah Ranke On January 1, 2020, Lakeshore Health Care Center in Irving, NY will permanently close. Like 700 other vulnerable hospitals nationally,...
20 Dec, 2019 "Uh... 👋🏽 Hi Canada. How about selling US some drugs?" By Leah Ranke The Medical Society of New York, AARP and AMA agree, U.S. markets should be allowed to import drugs from Canada to reduce drug costs for...
19 Dec, 2019 99.5 More Years By Margot Knab The World Economic Forum released a new report on the global gender gap this week, which estimates that gender parity is not expected to...
18 Dec, 2019 NY High Court: Physician Is Criminally Liable for Patient Overdose By Leah Ranke The New York Court of Appeals holds a physician is civilly and criminally liable for the opioid overdose deaths of his patients. It is...
18 Dec, 2019 Complete Human Genome Found in Ancient Chewing Gum By Leah Ranke Nearly 10,000 years ago, an ancient human chewed on birch pitch, an early form of chewing gum, then discarded it. Thirty years ago, it...
13 Dec, 2019 City of Good Neighbors Says All Neighbors Deserve a Bright, Healthy Future By Leah Ranke In an exciting launch today, the UB Community Health Equity Research Institute will study the root causes of health disparities across...