Advocates said increased staffing levels will improve the quality of care for patients and nursing home residents. New York has more than 300,000 registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and certified nurse aides.

More than a dozen unions in New York City have joined together to demand a "fair contract" between Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield and New York-Presbyterian that lowers prices at "the city's most expensive hospital system," read a full-page ad in Monday's New York Times.

"An analogy I like to use comes from hockey," said Dan Widawsky, chief financial officer of NYU Langone. "You don't want to skate to the puck; you want to skate to where the puck is going."

The New York utility's demand-response program rewards organizations for reducing their energy use on extreme-temperature days, lessening the load on the city’s grid.

Going forward, experts say bonuses will be increasingly tied to the patient population's overall health rather than the services provided. That shift was underway even before COVID-19, but the pandemic accelerated it.

As the Brooklyn Hospital Center enters the next phase of its $1 billion modernization project, it has laid out some key criteria in seeking a development partner, including a commitment to working with minority- and woman-owned enterprises.

New York officials and local experts played up the importance of moving forward with the other two vaccines available, from Pfizer and Moderna, so that the state does not lose its momentum.

New York City startups raised $10.2 billion in venture-capital investment during the first three months of the year, the largest total for any single quarter on record. The top deals focused on the healthcare industry and e-commerce—unsurprising during a pandemic.

Health centers and insurers were among opponents that celebrated the delay, saying it provided them more time to push for a complete repeal. Opponents say the carve-out would disproportionately affect safety-net providers participating in a 340B program.

The health and mental hygiene budget bill introduced over the weekend calls for nursing homes to spend at least 70% of their revenue on direct patient care, including 40% on resident-facing staffing.

New York legislation nixing broad legal protections for healthcare providers during the pandemic stands ready to become law after receiving the approval of veto-proof majorities in the Assembly and state Senate.

Pharmacies had been limited to inoculating people older than 60, along with teachers and child care workers. Pharmacy owners called on the state last week to allow their locations to vaccinate all eligible New Yorkers.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning and cloud computing are a few of the cutting-edge technologies making the rounds in healthcare. But even with those in its arsenal, IBM's Watson Health—the Westchester-based tech giant's cloud-powered health solutions arm—has not been able to turn a profit.

Oscar Health's share price on the New York Stock Exchange hovered around $31 Friday afternoon before market close, a decline of about 20% from the $39 pricing the company set for its initial public offering Tuesday evening. 

Investment reached a high mark between October and the end of the year, with just more than $1 billion spent in three months, according to a recent report from the New York City Health Business Leaders, a trade group focused on healthcare and technology.