Jon Harris

Amherst-based Independent Health will join with MVP Health Care, based in Schenectday.

With the four nursing homes cited, that means five Western New York facilities have now been fined by the state so far this year.

Plan discontinuances. Network changes. Mass confusion. "I would say this is arguably the most disruptive year we have seen," one expert said about this year's Medicare open enrollment.

Two months after giving $50M to Oishei Children's Hospital in Buffalo, billionaire philanthropist B. Thomas Golisano on Tuesday announced the creation of the Golisano Children's Alliance and a commitment of $253M to six hospitals.

Roswell Park Comprehensive Care Center and its Roswell Park Care Network community practices will no longer be in-network for Independent Health's individual Medicare Advantage plans, beginning Jan. 1.

A prominent Buffalo doctor, who built an urban health care organization on the city's West Side that he sold four years ago, has long been under investigation for Medicaid fraud by the state Attorney General's Office.

Vicora, designed to help pull out difficult blood clots, could shake up the $10 billion market for vascular intervention while providing a launching point for a medical device ecosystem in

A 120-bed nursing home in Chautauqua County is set to close after the operator said it was unable to renew a lease with its landlord.

Billionaire philanthropist B. Thomas Golisano will give $50 million to the John R. Oishei Children's Hospital. In recognition of the donation, the hospital announced it will change its name in January to Golisano Children's Hospital of Buffalo.

Veterans Affairs Administration facilities across the country have reported 50% more severe staffing shortages at a time when the Trump administration is seeking to reduce employment levels at the agency that annually serves more than 9 million veterans.

Former Kaleida Health CEO Robert Nesselbush has joined St. Joseph's Health in Paterson, N.J., as the health system's senior vice president and chief financial officer.

The collective bargaining agreement that covers about 400 union nurses at the Buffalo VA Medical Center is threatened as the Trump administration presses forward with a plan to strip federal workers of labor protections.

The University at Buffalo received notice from the U.S. Department of Education that informed the school that a fellowship program to support mental health at rural schools no longer aligned with "current administration priorities."

Orchard Park native Lindsey Alico was recruited home as the director of the master's degree program in genetic counseling at the University at Buffalo, which just received accreditation this spring.

With James Dunlop's departure, Independent Health CEO Dr. Michael W. Cropp will again take on the responsibilities of president.

"So you want to talk about what's going on with health care now?" Dr. Robert Berke asks. "It's a mess. It's an absolute mess. It's a disaster."

The rate requests submitted to the state, and posted online this week, affect people who buy individual commercial health insurance and small employers with 100 or fewer full-time workers.

Serviceaide, which provides an IT service platform for Catholic Health, said it learned in mid-November that certain patient information within its Catholic Health Elasticsearch database was "inadvertently made publicly available."

The two sides have agreed to extend the current three-year labor contract until 11:59 p.m. June 14. The agreement was previously set to expire this Saturday, May 31.

Catholic Health System has agreed to pay nearly $3.3 million to resolve accusations that it made payments to non-employee physicians to induce patient referrals.