Last month, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that New York has tapped Georgia-based Public Partnerships (PPL) to take over the ...

New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan stepped down Friday after two and a half years leading one of the world’s largest public health agencies.

In 2008, the city health department opened up 1,000 permits for street vendors to sell fresh fruits and vegetables in New ...

New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan will step down Friday, months earlier than planned. The department’s chief ...

Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. Drug overdose deaths in New York City decreased in 2023 for the first time in four years, according to data released Thursday by the ...

NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwi Vasan is reportedly stepping down as soon as Friday after previously saying that he would ...

The New York State Department of Health rejected a court-authorized buyer, a Life Care Services Communities affiliate, as the ...

On October 20, 2024, two new laws will take effect in New York that impact how healthcare providers obtain consent to payment and collect ...

Advocates for veterans said the increases were likely the result of new disability benefits that have led to more thorough ...

"We're very mindful that this could go from concerning to bad," a New York hospital trade group spokesman said.

Now, the state plans to pull off the payment overhaul in six months; the Department of Health notified school-based health ...

To address concerns about the misuse of race in certain clinical algorithms, the public health system in New York City has ...