Fred Mogul

Healthcare and Medicine Reporter, WNYC News

Fred Mogul appears in the following:

Struggling Financially, St. Vincent's Hospital Faces Takeover

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

One of Manhattan’s largest hospitals could shrink considerably if a plan under consideration is approved.

Continuum Partners, the network that owns Beth Israel and St. Luke's Roosevelt hospitals, has proposed taking over financially troubled St. Vincent’s in the West Village and shutting down its inpatient beds, ...

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Menendez on Democrats Shrinking Majority

Thursday, January 21, 2010

New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez is in charge of defending his party’s shrinking majority in that chamber. As the chairman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Commmittee, he says the recent spate of electoral losses in Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey clearly indicate that people want ...

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Paterson Proposes Tax on Sugared Beverages

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Governor Paterson wants to cut a billion dollars from Medicaid, the state’s largest expenditure. But as WNYC’s Fred Mogul reports, he also wants to raise money with a tax that some will find hard to swallow.

REPORTER: When Paterson was in a budget crisis last year, ...

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Nursing Graduates Face Difficult Job Market

Friday, January 15, 2010

The perennial nursing shortage may have become a surplus.

After years of training programs trying to attract people, new nursing graduates appear to be having a tougher time getting work. Jean Moore, who studies the health-care workforce at SUNY Albany, says the latest figures suggest the ...

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Bloomberg Seeks to Cut Salt Content in Food

Monday, January 11, 2010

Following on the heels of his campaign against tobacco and trans fats Mayor Michael Bloomberg is taking aim at salt.

Today, the city formalized the initiative and announced a list of partners. Unlike previous campaigns, this one isn’t starting with a local ban. Health officials are ...

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Health Care Providers Protest Zealous Auditing

Friday, January 08, 2010

Health care providers say they’re getting swept up in a Medicaid fraud dragnet and being forced to pay thousands and sometimes millions of dollars to the government, despite not having committing fraud.

New York created the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General or OMIG in ...

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Calorie Conscious Coffee Drinkers?

Thursday, January 07, 2010

(Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)

(Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's touting a new Stanford Business School study that suggests Starbucks customers have been easing back on the indulgences since the city’s calorie-posting law took effect in 2008. The study hasn't been ...

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Foot Doctors Sentenced to Jail Time

Thursday, January 07, 2010

Nine area podiatrists have been sentenced in federal court to prison terms for Medicare fraud in various schemes dating back to the 1980s, according to court papers. The firm Citywide Clinics had offices under different names in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. Podiatrists were convicted ...

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New Yorkers Blow Off New Year's Steam at Pratt

Friday, January 01, 2010

Steam whistles are no longer a mainstay of factories, trains and tugboats, but you can still hear them once a year, around midnight on New Years Eve, if you’re within earshot of the Pratt Institute, in the heart of Brooklyn.

REPORTER: It’s a little more ...

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Whistle to Ring in the New Year

Thursday, December 31, 2009

While the eyes of most of the nation will be on the ball at Times Square at midnight, in Brooklyn, some ears will be waiting for the toot of a steam whistle to signify the start of 2010.

Conrad Milster could be found this morning warming ...

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Kosher Slaughterhouse Closed for Unsanitary Conditions

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

A federal judge has temporarily closed a Rockland County kosher slaughterhouse accused of poor sanitary conditions. Prosecutors say New Square Meats and Adir Poultry of Spring Valley violated United States Department of Agriculture rules.

Slaughterhouse managers allegedly kept inspectors out of the facility. When they finally ...

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Health Insurance Premiums and Profits

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

WNYC reporter Fred Mogul discusses efforts by state regulators to control health insurance premiums, and the effect on insurance industry profits.

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Thousands of City's H1N1 Vaccines Recalled for Weakened Strength

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

About 22,000 recalled H1N1 flu vaccine doses have been distributed to New York City clinics and doctors' offices.

The vaccine is considered safe, but is being recalled because it apparently has lost much of its potency. So far, the city has only been able to determine ...

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Health Dept. Pours on the Glop

Monday, December 14, 2009

Attentive subway riders not buried in their iPods, magazines, or even thoughts will have noticed, for a good few months now, ads suggesting that drinking sugary soda amounts to “Pouring on the Pounds.” But why read the print ad when you can see the ...

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H1N1 Vaccines Now Available to All New Yorkers

Friday, December 11, 2009

With supplies high and demand low, officials are making the swine flu vaccine available to ALL New Yorkers. WNYC’s Fred Mogul has more.

REPORTER: Previously, the vaccine was only available for people in priority groups, such as pregnant women, caregivers of newborns and people with chronic ...

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Swine Flu Vaccine Now Available to All New Yorkers

Thursday, December 10, 2009

With supplies high and demand low, officials are making the swine flu vaccine available to all New Yorkers.

Previously, the vaccine was only available for people in priority groups, such as pregnant women, caregivers of newborns, and people with chronic health problems. The state Health Department ...

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Electeds Urge Healthcare Reform

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

In a rare joint statement, Gov. David Paterson and Mayor Michael Bloomberg addressed an open letter to New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, urging them to change the current healthcare reform bill under consideration in Congress.

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Bloomberg and Paterson Push for Changes to Health-Care Bill

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

In a rare joint statement, Gov. David Paterson and Mayor Michael Bloomberg addressed an open letter to New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, urging them to change the current health-care reform bill under consideration in Congress.

In the letter, Paterson and Bloomberg ...

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The Swine Flu-Merlot Connection

Friday, December 04, 2009

Brooklyn residents fill out paperwork and get ready for their H1N1 flu vaccines, at a health deparment clinic.

Brooklyn residents fill out paperwork and get ready for their H1N1 flu vaccines at a health deparment clinic.

It's the day for the WNYC health ...

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Healthcare Escapes Deep Cuts, But Paterson Vows Further Reductions

Thursday, December 03, 2009

While it falls short of what Governor Paterson was looking for, lawmakers did pass legislation that partially closes New York's $3.2 billion deficit.

The bill makes cuts totaling about $2.7 billion. But Governor Paterson says those cuts don't go far enough, and he says he'll have ...

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