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Legislators from both parties joined neonatal doctors and advocates to call for Medicaid funding of donor breast milk for premature infants to be included in the final enacted budget. The bill, (A.6481/ S.4526) sponsored by Senate Health committee chair Kemp Hannon, R- Garden City, and Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, D-Elmont, […]
Sen. Kemp Hannon has introduced a bill that would address the recent drastic price increase for a drug that treats anaphylactic shock — a severe, potentially life threatening allergic reaction that can be brought on by something as simple as peanut ingestion or a bee sting. The bill (S.8189) […]