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Healthy companies first need healthy employees
Welcome to Providence Business News’ inaugural Healthiest Employers program special section. In these pages you will find out a little about some of the state’s most enlightened companies, ones that take the needs of the employees very seriously, and as a result, deliver better products and services to their customers. more
Blue Cross, Care New England move toward new contract
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Care New England have signed a letter of intent to reopen their current contract and create a new, five-year “partnership” that repositions reimbursements according to new global payment and quality metrics. more
Nutrition Consultants acquired by N.H. businessman
Tim McCarthy, a health care business professional from New Hampshire, acquired West Warwick-based nutrition consulting services provider Nutrition Consultants LLC. more
CVS earnings top estimates in 2Q
CVS Caremark Corp., the largest provider of prescription drugs in the U.S., reported second quarter profit that exceeded analysts’ estimates, helped by customers it gained from Walgreen Co. more
Medicare reimbursements to increase at 4 R.I. hospitals in '13
Four Rhode Island hospitals – Newport, Kent, South County and Westerly hospitals – will receive an increase totaling $7.1 million increase in Medicare payments for fiscal year 2013. more
Lt. Gov. Association makes Alzheimers a priority
In a bipartisan resolution co-sponsored by R.I. Lt. Gov. Elizabeth H. Roberts, the National Lieutenant Governors Association endorsed efforts to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer’s disease by 2025 at its annual meeting in July. more
Insurance costs continue trending upward
The 2012 Compensation Data Healthcare survey results reported the average annual cost of insurance per employee on a health care employer-sponsored preferred provider organizations, or PPO plan is $8,707, an increase of about 28 percent in three years from the $6,807 average annual cost reported in 2009. more
Three group practices join CSI initiative
Three medical group practices have joined the Rhode Island Chronic Care Sustainability Initiative (CSI-RI), adding 16,000 patients to the list of more than 70,000 patients currently served by the patient-centered medical home demonstration project launched in 2008. more
South County offers ‘mini’ hip replacement
South County Hospital is now offering a new kind of hip replacement, which is less invasive and allows patients to recover more quickly, hospital officials announced on July 20. more
Blue Cross to offer limited-network plan
In 2013, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island will introduce a new health-insurance product, a shared-savings, limited-network plan, in collaboration with one or more of the state’s seven hospital systems, Blue Cross President and CEO Peter Andruszkiewicz told Providence Business News. more
By Richard Asinof
Contributing Writer | 8/6/12
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