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It's that time of year where candle aisles get lit. Bath & Body Works, in particular, gets busy with an annual candle sale that coaxes people out of bed before sunrise, attracts shoppers from abroad and entices people to add to 90-candle collections: https://t.co/fwvNIlzrKb
AriZona, famous for its 99 cent tallboys, is trying its hand at hard teas ... and mass-produced nutcrackers. Those don't come in the big cans, though: https://t.co/JqEU2vSO5S
ONLY IN NEWSDAY: Stony Brook is the only LI hospital still suing patients over medical debt. "Between my rent and everything else, I'm just trying to live," one patient told Newsday about her medical debt. @SarinaTrangle @Newsday https://t.co/xzPKLkjgBW
My comments in @SarinaTrangle’s story @Newsday Stony Brook suing hundreds of patients over medical debt
Yet, Stony Brook seems to have a relatively small financial aid or charity care program. Its charity care amounted to 0.5% of its operating expense budget in 2021, according to the most recent hospital provider cost report available through the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency that runs public insurance programs and oversees the health sector. That’s less than its peers, according to Ge Bai, an accounting and health policy professor at Johns Hopkins University.
Government-run hospitals in New York State put a median of 1.8% of expenses toward charity care; their counterparts nationwide, 0.9%, said Bai, whose research measured charitable benefits using the same approach taken by the Internal Revenue Service, the agency that oversees nonprofits.
@JHUCarey@JohnsHopkinsSPH@BSPH_HPM@JohnsHopkins
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@SarinaTrangle on how more Long Islanders are paying annual membership fees of thousands of dollars for "concierge care" to get more time with their doctors, personalized care & same-day appointments. “This is an indictment of the system," one doctor said.
Babylon Town officials have ordered a nonprofit to shut down a homeless shelter in West Babylon by the end of June, saying the facility has been operating illegally for months: https://t.co/m1JLVm05Qb
Will Long Island be underwater one day? @Newsday spoke to environmental experts about Long Island's rising sea levels. The findings from this research show that over the next 25 years, sea levels are expected to rise 13 to 25 inches: https://t.co/muePlf1n3o