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HSRI AND OHIC announced the establishment of a health insurance Market Stability Workgroup designed to suggest state-level solutions to lower health insurance costs and stabilize the health insurance market. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

ACA insurers’ rate increases tempered despite uncertainty

Health Services 05/31/2018

PROVIDENCE – Rate increase requests from the two insurers participating in the individual health insurance market were 10.7 and 8.7 percent for Blue Cross...

OHIC HAS ANNOUNCED rate increase requests by the state's major insurers for 2019. Above, Marie L. Ganim, the Rhode Island Health Insurance Commissioner, speaks during the October 2017 PBN Health Care Summit. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ RUPERT WHITELEY

OHIC lists health insurance rate increase requests for 2019

Health Services 05/30/2018

PROVIDENCE — The R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner has released the rate increase requests of the state’s four largest insurers for individual,...

UNIVERSITY ORTHOPEDICS recently opened a new location in East Providence. From left: Edward Burman Jr., president of EW Burman; Kathy Snelgrove, chief operating officer of University Orthopedics; Michael Integlia, president of Michael Integlia & Co.; Dr. Mark Palumbo, University Orthopedics; Dr. Edward Akelman, president of University Orthopedics; Weber Shill, CEO of University Orthopedics; Mehdi Khosrovani, president of NEMD Architects; East Providence Mayor James Briden. / COURTESY SHANE PHOTOGRAPHY

University Orthopedics opens East Providence facility

Health Services 05/28/2018

EAST PROVIDENCE – University Orthopedics opened its most recent location on Kettle Point Avenue in East Providence May 23, a 90,000-square-foot medical office building and...

DR. ERIC B. NEWTON is a board-certified gastroenterologist at University Gastroenterology and a clinical associate professor of medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY GASTROENTEROLOGY

Five Questions With: Dr. Eric B. Newton

Health Services 05/28/2018

Dr. Eric B. Newton, a board-certified gastroenterologist at University Gastroenterology, is well-versed in gastroenterology, a branch of medicine that focuses on the digestive system...

CharterCARE Foundation gives $50K to Operation Stand Down Rhode Island

Health Services 05/28/2018

JOHNSTON – The CharterCARE Foundation has awarded Operation Stand Down Rhode Island a $50,000 grant it will use to hire a full-time, licensed social...

KERRY ANN GOLDSMITH, executive director of Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health’s Massachusetts and Rhode Island office, recently received the Association of Children’s Residential Centers’ Fellow award during ACRC’s annual conference in Boston. / COURTESY DEVEREUX ADVANCED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

Goldsmith wins ACRC Fellow award

Health Services 05/28/2018

PROVIDENCE – Kerry Ann Goldsmith, executive director of Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health’s Massachusetts and Rhode Island office, was recently honored with the “Fellow” award by...

DR. DANI HACKNER has been named Southcoast Health’s new physician in chief for medicine. / COURTESY SOUTHCOAST HEALTH

Southcoast Health names Hackner physician in chief for medicine

Health Services 05/28/2018

NEW BEDFORD – Southcoast Health has named Dr. Dani Hackner its new physician in chief for medicine. Hackner is an intensivist and is board-certified in...

RHODE ISLAND RANKED No. 8 in the country in overall senior health in America's Health Rankings Senior Report 2018. / COURTESY UNITED HEALTH FOUNDATION

Report: R.I. ranks 3rd in N.E. for overall senior health

Health Services 05/24/2018

PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island’s overall environment for seniors has improved since last year, ranking high in percentage of high-quality nursing home beds, Supplemental Nutrition...

CARE NEW ENGLAND and Partners HealthCare have announced the companies have signed a definitive agreement, with an open-ended, exclusive letter of intent to merge.

CNE and Partners sign merger agreement, Brown drops objection

Health Services 05/23/2018

PROVIDENCE — Care New England Health System and Partners HealthCare of Massachusetts have signed a definitive agreement to merge, moving ahead in the process...