Fred Mogul

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A new report suggests New York routinely overpays hospitals for various medical procedures. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's office looked at how much the state Health Department and the Medicaid system pay when hospitals release and then re-admit patients.

DiNapoli says New York should emulate New Jersey, ...

We’re not hoping things go wrong, we’re just saying they probably will, and we’ll be ready.

That’s the gist of the message from medical malpractice attorney David Perecman, who writes with concern about increased the patient volume at some Manhattan hospitals following the closure of St. Vincent’s Medical ...

State Sen. Craig Johnson took time off from his busy work investigating the machinery of state government and monitoring the calories that come into his staff office to take on over-zealous defenders of immigrant rights. Johnson got ...

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Even as St. Vincent's Medical Center in Greenwich Village is shutting down, it's being reinvented. Gov. David Paterson has announced that an urgent care center will be opening in a small part of ...

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A Manhattan-based hospital is receiving a multi-million dollar grant to operate an "urgent care center" at the site of the financially troubled St. Vincents Hospital. Lenox Hill Hospital will receive $9 million from New York State to operate the center 24 hours a day, seven ...

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The schedule at St. Vincent’s Day Treatment Center is basically a menu of group therapy sessions. In any given hour of the day, there might be a stress management group or one working on self expression, interpersonal relations, weight management, smoking cessation and more. A ...

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'An urgent care center is not what this community needs. They’re trying to throw us a bone!'

That’s a doctor earlier this week protesting the closure of St. ...

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The city is appealing a federal judge’s ruling last month in the case of World Trade Center responders and workers. The city and attorneys for about 10,000 plaintiffs proposed a settlement that could be worth more than $650 million. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said that ...

3,500 employees of the nearly bankrupt hospital got termination notices, hospital expected to file for bankruptcy as soon as this week.

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St. Vincent's Medical Center today submitted its formal closure plan to state health authorities. Outside the Greenwich Village hospital, about 200 nurses and doctors, and a few community members, protested, but it's not clear what recourse they have.

Dr. William Mandel was one of several employees ...

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The federal judge in the lawsuit of World Trade Center workers and first responders has cleared the way for additional cases to proceed.

Most of the attention has focused on rescuers and cleanup workers at the World Trade Center site, some of whom are sick, and ...

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It’s Good Friday, when devout Christians around the world reflect on the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross.

At our Lady of Pompeii in Greenwich Village, Maria Abreu said there's celebration ahead on Easter Sunday, but today is a day for somber reflection.

"For me, it's ...

Representatives Nydia Velasquez and Charles Rangel praise activists, and activists praise them, during a celebration of health-care reform passage. (Photo by Fred ...

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Several Congressional representatives are gathering today on City Hall steps to celebrate the recent passage of health-care reform. One Democrat who isn’t joining them is Staten Island's Michael McMahon, who voted against the bill.

Yesterday, though he joined a different crowd.

McMahon worked the crowd at the ...

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A new study of pregnant women who contracted H1N1 swine flu last year suggests they should be monitored with even more vigilance than previously believed.

The Health Department study looked only at 17 pregnant women who ended up in intensive care units. With a group that ...

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On one side: the state's top health official. On the other: a libertarian activist.

In the middle: a 400-calorie energy drink and a proposed tax on sugary beverages.

Justin Wilson (left) from the Center for Consumer Freedom sparred with New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Richard ...

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Local hospitals are cautiously optimistic that they and their patients will benefit from the health care reform bill President Obama signed today. Dr. Herb Pardes, head of New York-Presbyterian, says hospitals will lose billions of dollars over the next decade. But, on balance, he thinks ...

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The holdouts held out, but almost all local Congressional representatives supported Sunday's historic vote for health care reform.

New York had two Democratic "No" votes, New Jersey, one and Connecticut, none, while the Republicans were in lockstep opposition. Unions and grassroots groups tried to pressure first-term ...

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A federal judge has rejected a legal settlement that would have given over half a billion dollars to 10,000 ground zero workers sickened by ash and dust.

REPORTER: US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said the proposed sum --between about $550 and $650 million -– is not ...

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Attorneys in the World Trade Center lawsuit will appear in court today to discuss a proposed half-billion dollar legal settlement. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.

REPORTER: It’s not uncommon for attorneys in large lawsuits to get a third or more of legal settlements. That means the ...