KATHLEEN C. HITTNER, THE R.I. Health Insurance Commissioner announced the health insurance premium requests for individual and small group markets Thursday evening./ PBN FILE PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS
CRANSTON – Rhode Island’s four largest health insurers have requested premium increases across the board and in all market categories for 2018, breaking the trend of past years when some insurers had requested lower rates, according to a release posted Thursday by the R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner. In the small-group market, UnitedHealthcare…