This is the 13th installment in an ongoing investigative series, launched in December 2022, about CareMount/Optum, broader local healthcare issues and corporate medicine. By Adam Stone Although I’ve done a ton of reporting over the past 14 months about Optum,
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Mets Legend Mookie Wilson Joins Long Island Entrepreneur’s Executive Team By Adam Stone Back in June 2021, my childhood friend Jeff Ahn was watching the Women’s College Softball World Series at his Syosset home alongside his then-10-year-old daughter, with Oklahoma
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This column marks the seventh installment in a series exploring topics that provide new insights into the boundaries of established science. By Adam Stone Colin McPhillamy was a little boy growing up in England, just four years old, when he
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This is the 12th installment in an ongoing investigative series, launched in December 2022 about CareMount/Optum, broader local healthcare issues and corporate medicine. By Adam Stone One result of launching an ongoing series about the problems at CareMount/Optum, and the
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By Adam Stone Have you ever heard of terminal lucidity? If the answer is no, that makes two of us – at least before I began to explore the miraculous phenomenon last week. As it turns out, people suffering from
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By Adam Stone Michael Farruggia displays emotion in this brief video from July 18, 2023, the day of his most recent massive flood. One lesson I’ve learned as both the husband of a teacher and the publisher of local civic
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On Anniversary of Slaying, Community Still Seeks Justice Family Member Identifies Possible Wood Bat Hidden in Fireplace By Adam Stone On a haunting, snow-draped winter morning, on Jan. 8, 1996, Pleasantville Fire Department volunteers went searching for Tom Dorr
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By Adam Stone Over the course of the next year, many of the country’s fervent political observers will direct their eyes on the 17th Congressional District, knowing we have one of the nation’s few purple swing districts drawn right here
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Outrage Mounts Over Broken Care Coordination, Fractured Call Centers By Adam Stone This is the 11th installment in an investigative series about CareMount/Optum, broader local healthcare issues and corporate medicine. Within the last year or so, legacy CareMount physicians and
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Same-Day Care Denied Urgent Need for Reform Inside this week’s Stone’s Throw investigation: Insider confirms significant exodus of CareMount providers Doctor shortage detailed Access denied for same-day appointments Local leadership shakeup Noncompete ban gains governor’s attention More documents from Attorney
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