Marion Davis
Seeing profits in MRIs
Doctors’ offices, radiologists clash over lucrative tests
A boom in the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs), accompanied by spiraling costs, is causing alarm among...
LLCs facing new workers’ comp risks
The Station fire triggered the change: Four employees perished in the blaze, but the club had no workers’ compensation insurance. Under state law, the...
Bill would make insurers pay at least Medicare rates
Legislator cites rising costs for providers
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island resisted doctors’ demands for better pay for years, only acquiescing after...
Report critical of teachers’ union ignites debate
A business group’s report that lambastes teachers’ contracts as major obstacles to school improvement has infuriated unions and gotten mixed reviews from others in...
Bills target mandates put on health plans
A bill pending in the House Corporations Committee, dubbed “Duncan’s Law,” would require every health insurance policy in Rhode Island to cover treatment for...
R.I. officials, centers decry proposed Medicaid cuts
State could lose $78.5M over the next five years
Thousands of Rhode Islanders could lose their health insurance, and hospitals, health centers, nursing homes and...
Mandates cover various services
Rhode Island law mandates health insurance coverage of several services and treatments, with exceptions for some very limited types of policies.
Here are some of...
School health clinics pressed to bill insurers more
Sharon Garber does plenty of physicals at the Mount Pleasant High School health clinic, and she treats asthmatic kids, gives immunizations, and even worked...
Insurer praised for personal touch
Can former CEO affect state’s health policies?
Bernie and Bill Hicks have a big family: six girls ages 3 to 15, all adopted, plus a...
Temps allow flexibility in shifting labor market
At Swarovski’s plant in Cranston, almost one-third of the 350 workers making delicate jewelry and crystal gifts last week were not employed by the...
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