Question

Who does what in terms of healthcare regulators? Make a comprehensive list for the state of New York . You must include at least ten entities. Provide your sources and define and describe each entity mentioned.

This is just to search for different healthcare entities located in New York State and Summarize their responsibilities.

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Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. is an American biotechnology company based in Ardsley, New York. The company develops therapies that improve neurological function in people with Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders. Acorda Therapeutics manufactures and markets the drugs Inbrija (levodopa inhalation powder) and Ampyra (dalfampridine) in the United States.

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Allion Healthcare (NASDAQ: ALLI) was the parent company of MOMSpharmacy based in Melville, New York primarily known for providing mail order HIV medications to patients who are primarily on Medicaid or the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP). Among the offerings is the MOMSPak in which the drugs are packed together in dated individual packages to make the multi-drug regimen easier. The company reported having 15,610 patients in 2007. The company has distribution centers in New York, California, Florida, New Jersey, and Washington.

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The G.F. Harvey Company was a pharmaceutical manufacturer headquartered in Saratoga Springs, New York between 1890 and 1958. The company was started around 1880 by George F. Harvey, originally from Vermont, who moved to Saratoga Springs and began operations out of his home on Church Street. There he developed and improved machinery to manufacture medicine in pill form, a major improvement on the then-common liquids and powders. In 1889 Harvey went into business with Sidney Rickard and New York State Senator Edgar T. Brackett. The three incorporated the G.F. Harvey Company with a capital of $250,000 and constructed a three-story building on Waterbury Street in Saratoga Springs for manufacturing. By 1907 the company employed 100 people plus 66 traveling salesmen. In 1939 Harvey built a new administration and research building on Wells Street around the corner from the manufacturing facility. The company had a distribution center in Peoria, Illinois, which suffered a disastrous fire in 1943. It also had local agents in Mille Roches, Ontario and London, England. In 1958 Harvey was sold and became the Bard Saratoga Labs of Bard Pharmaceuticals. It finally ceased operation in 1960.

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Genovese Drug Stores was a pharmacy chain located in the New York City-Long Island area of the United States, including northern New Jersey, along with Fairfield County, Connecticut and Hartford County, Connecticut. It was acquired by Eckerd in 1998. Genovese was founded in 1924 by Joseph Genovese, in Astoria, Queens. By 1978, when Genovese died, the chain had grown to 50 locations. It opened its first Manhattan location in 1993. At time of its sale in 1998 to JCPenney, the still family-controlled chain was headquartered in Melville, New York and had 141 stores and 5,000 employees. Five years after the acquisition, the Genovese name ceased to exist when all the remaining stores were rebranded as Eckerd. The former Genovese stores that have remained open currently do business as Rite Aid, who bought Eckerd's eastern U.S. operations in 2007 (these locations are distinguishable as having blue signs instead of red signs). One Rite Aid store in Astoria is now a CVS/pharmacy. Genovese Drug Stores had no connection to the Genovese crime family, one of the "Five Families" of the city's Mafia.

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Help Remedies, Inc. is an American pharmaceutical company, founded by Richard Fine and Nathan Frank in 2008, based in New York City that sells an assortment of single-ingredient over-the-counter medications. The company has been noted for its unique product packaging and design ethic. All products are packaged in a flat, white, textured box that opens like a tin. Help Remedies differ from many other over-the-counter drugs in that each product is made with a single active ingredient, for example, the medicine used to help with a headache only contains acetaminophen. Help Remedy's products also contain less dyes and coatings than many other drugs. Help Remedies' products are intended to exemplify simplicity. All of their products they offer are named based on the specific symptom which it's intended to treat so that customers know what they are taking. In 2011, the company reached $4 million in sales and plans to expand to San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Austin, Texas, Chicago, and Miami.

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Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an American biopharmaceutical company incorporated in 2002, focusing on the development of novel synthetic bile acid analogs to treat chronic liver diseases, such as primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) now called primary biliary cholangitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, NASH), cirrhosis, portal hypertension, primary sclerosing cholangitis and also the intestinal disorder, bile acid diarrhea. The company's lead product is obeticholic acid, OCA, also known as 6-ethyl-chenodeoxycholic acid or INT-747, marketed as Ocaliva. OCA is a potent first-in-class farnesoid X receptor (FXR) agonist. As of March 2017, Ocaliva is approved in the US and the EU for use in primary biliary cholangitis. It is in phase III studies for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and phase II studies for primary sclerosing cholangitis.

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Kinney Drugs is a chain of approximately 100 drugstores and pharmacies throughout Central and Northern New York, as well as Vermont. Its headquarters is located in Gouverneur. The company was founded in 1903 by Burt Orrin Kinney, a native of Gouverneur. The first drugstore was opened in Gouverneur, and the original store is still operating in the center of the village's business district. The company opened stores across the region, and in 1962 built a distribution center in Gouverneur. As a leading regional drugstore, Kinney Drugs has a strong presence throughout the metropolitan areas of Syracuse, Watertown, and Plattsburgh; and also Burlington and the northern half of the state of Vermont. Many locations are freestanding stores with drive-thru pharmacies. In some smaller towns such as Bomoseen and Old Forge. Kinney's also operates pharmacies with a smaller selection of general merchandise. Besides their drug stores, they operate ProAct prescription benefit management firm, HealthDirect institutional pharmacy services, Noble Health Services and HealthDirect mail order pharmacy services.

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Fairchild Brothers & Foster was a drug manufacturer which was based in New York City in the 1930s.Thomas Fairchild studied at Stratford Academy and graduated from Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Afterward he joined Caswell Havard & Company of New York City. Later he organized Fairchild Brothers & Foster, together with his brother, Samuel W. Fairchild (d. 1927), and Macomb G. Foster. The company was acquired by Sterling Drug, Inc., in February 1946. Fairchild Brothers & Foster specialized in making drugs to assist digestive disorders. Among the drugs it produced were Marinol, Phisoderm, and Enzymo. Stearns & Company, a subsidiary of Sterling Drug, Inc., took over the distribution of all except three drugs made by the acquired concern. Winthrop Chemical Company, also a Sterling subsidiary, resumed the manufacture of Marinol, Phisoderm, and Enzymo.

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Duane Reade Inc. is a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores owned by Walgreens Boots Alliance. They are primarily located in New York City, known for its high volume small store layouts in densely populated Manhattan locations. In 2012 the company headquarters was moved to 40 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, the location of its newest flagship store.

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Sirona Dental Systems Inc. (Sirona) was a global dental equipment manufacturer, and the world's largest dental equipment provider, which used to be part of Siemens. It became an independent company in 1997. The company is headquartered in Long Island City, New York. So far, it has facilities in over 17 countries and serves over 100 countries and districts. In 2011, the company was ranked at 27th in the list of America's Best Small Companies by Forbes. The company built the world's first dental X-ray unit, REKORD. In 2013, the company was awarded the Top Employer Award for Germany, Austria and Engineer in 2013. Its subsidiary in China, Sirona China, was given Top Employer China 2014. In 2014, it won the Good Design Award (Chicago) 2013 for its excellence design of two products.