Rob Borkowski
BCBSRI offers health insurance buying advice
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island has staff available at three Your Blue Store locations in East Providence, Warwick and...
Dominion Diagnostics celebrates 20th anniversary
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Dominion Diagnostics LLC celebrated two decades in business as a drug-monitoring company in November, and stands poised to mark a milestone...
Eger earns menopause practitioner certification
PROVIDENCE – Renee Eger, medical director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Care Center and the Menopause Program at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode...
R.I. hospitals’ dilemma: Nurture innovation or be downsized by it
Medical innovation saves and improves otherwise desperate lives and lends prestige to the hospitals nurturing it, while attracting new patients, funding, and top researchers...
Butler treating opioid addiction as disease
Rhode Island added a fourth center of excellence for opioid-addiction treatment at Providence’s Butler Hospital in November, part of a statewide effort to focus...
BCBSRI pledges $20K for R.I.’s first substance use disorder recovery center
PROVIDENCE – A $20,000 grant from Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island has helped The Providence Center raise the full $400,000 needed...
NCQA rates 5 R.I. health plans ‘excellent’
PROVIDENCE — The National Committee for Quality Assurance has accredited 19 health plans in Rhode Island, rating five of them “excellent,” its highest such rating.
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Leapfrog Group names St. Anne’s, Miriam among nation’s top hospitals
FALL RIVER — The Leapfrog Group has named St. Anne’s Hospital among 44 Top General Hospitals in the United States, and also named The...
MedMates, New England Medical Innovation Center win $150K to foster biotech...
PROVIDENCE — The R.I. Commerce Corp. has awarded a $150,000 Network Matching Grant to The New England Medical Innovation Center and local life sciences...
CVS-Aetna merger will aim to draw customers on cost, convenience
WOONSOCKET — The proposed $69 billion CVS Health – Aetna merger concentrates significant market power, allowing the pharmacy business to drive the insurance business’s...