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United Way hosts Medicare-enrollment help sessions

PROVIDENCE – Medicare open enrollment for 2018 coverage runs from Nov. 1 through Dec. 7 for individuals to choose and make changes to health...
REBECCA BOSS is the director of the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals. / COURTESY R.I. DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS

State plans $2.5M move of Eleanor Slater patients to Benton Center

CRANSTON — The Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals will relocate Eleanor Slater Hospital’s psychiatric patients to the Roosevelt Benton Center to...
INSURANCE RATES WOULD most likely remain unchanged until the next enrollment period next year for 2019 even if Congress passes a bill restoring Cost Sharing Reduction subsidies to health insurance companies according to a representative for the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/ ANDREW HARRER

OHIC: Federal restoration of CSRs won’t guarantee rate reductions

PROVIDENCE —If a bipartisan, congressional restoration of Cost Sharing Reduction subsidies succeeds, a second revision of HealthSource RI’s silver-level health plan rates would require a...

Integra Community Care reports $8.3 million saved with accountable care approach

PROVIDENCE — The Integra Community Care Network reported an $8.3 million savings in 2016 under the Medicare Shared Savings Program with a simultaneous 95...
MEMBERS OF UNITED NURSES and Allied Professionals Local 5008 picketed Kent Hospital on Toll Gate Road Sept. 12, calling for terms equal to other workers and job security assurances. They and the hospital agreed to those terms Oct. 22. / COURTESY KENT HOSPITAL

Kent Hospital, UNAP agree on equal terms for newly unionized workers,...

WARWICK - United Nurses and Allied Professionals Local 5008 and Kent Hospital reached a tentative agreement Sunday night, Oct. 22, on a first contract for...
DR. JERROLD N. ROSENBERG, 63, operator of a now-defunct pain management practice in Rhode Island, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Oct. 25 to conspiring to solicit and receive kickbacks through his prescribing of the drug Subsys. / COURTESY JRMD.NET

Rosenberg pleads guilty to fraud, kickback conspiracy in Subsys prescription scam

PROVIDENCE - Jerrold N. Rosenberg, 62, of North Providence, indicted in U.S. District Court in February on health care fraud and conspiring to solicit and...
SOUTHCOAST HEALTH confirmed that 189 workers have accepted voluntary buyouts from across its systems.

Southcoast Health reports 189 employee buyouts, $29M loss

FALL RIVER — Southcoast Health System Inc. reported that 189 employees have accepted voluntary early buyouts offered over the summer as the medical group...
GOV. GINA M. RAIMONDO's office said that Lifespan and CharterCare Health Partners have said they will strongly consider applicants displaced from Memorial Hospital if the R.I. Department of Health approves a Reverse Certificate of Need to close the hospital. / COURTESY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF RHODE ISLAND

Gov.: Lifespan, CharterCare vacancies can absorb Memorial staff

PROVIDENCE — Should Care New England’s filing to close Pawtucket’s Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island be approved by the R.I. Department of Health, there...
DEBORAH PARENTE, left, office manager, and Dr. Stephen Estner, owner, cut the ribbon at the grand opening of Estner Injury Center's new location at 2191 Post Road in Warwick. / COURTESY WARWICK DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT

Estner Injury Center expands into Warwick with Post Road location

WARWICK – Chiropractor Dr. Stephen Estner, founder of Estner Injury Center, wasn’t planning to expand beyond his Cranston, Pawtucket and Providence offices, but his...
DR. RACHEL BEARD, a specialist in laparoscopic liver and pancreatic surgery, joined the Division of Surgical Oncology at University Surgical Associates this month. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY SURGICAL ASSOCIATES

Five Questions With: Dr. Rachel Beard

Dr. Rachel Beard joined the Division of Surgical Oncology at University Surgical Associates Oct. 2, where she will provide state-of-the-art treatment for patients with...
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