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Five Questions With: Dr. Jeffrey Jacques

Health Services 02/19/2023

Dr. Jeffrey Jacques is the new chief medical officer of Virgin Pulse Inc. Former CVS Health Corp. and Aetna Inc. clinical leader, in his...

Virgin Pulse names Jeffrey Jacques chief medical officer

Health Services 01/15/2023

PROVIDENCE – Virgin Pulse Inc. has appointed Jeffrey Jacques, former CVS Health Corp./Aetna Inc. clinical leader, as chief medical officer. In this new role, Jacques...

TREADING ALONG: CVS Health Corp. employee Diana Balavender works out on a treadmill at one of the company’s on-site fitness centers.  COURTESY CVS HEALTH CORP.

Taking care of employees allows CVS to best serve customers

Health Services 08/05/2022

PBN Healthiest Employers Awards 2022 5,000+ EMPLOYEES 1. CVS Health Corp. CEO (or equivalent): Karen S. Lynch, CEO and president Number of employees: 325,000 As a diversified health services...

Health insurers seek rate increases for all individual, group plans in...

Government 06/28/2021

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s largest health insurance companies are seeking rate increases for 2022 that range from 2.9% to 17.5% for the small- and...

NEXT CHALLENGE: Panelists discuss the region’s rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine during the PBN Health Care Summit on April 8. Clockwise from top left is Dr. Karen Tashima, who directs clinical trials for Lifespan Corp.; Dr. Kirsten Anderson, from Aetna/CVS Health; moderator PBN Editor Michael Mello; Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University; Christopher Palmieri, CEO and president of Commonwealth Care Alliance; and Peter Marino, CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island.

‘Hesitancy’ will be next snag with vaccinations

Coronavirus 04/16/2021

Rhode Island will soon hit a tipping point in COVID-19 vaccinations – a point at which there will be more vaccine available than the...

OHIC approves 2021 health insurance rates; AG Neronha slams rate increases

Economy 08/28/2020

CRANSTON – The R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner released its approved health insurance premium rates for 2021 Friday, saying it has saved...

INCREASED ENROLLMENT: Aaliyah Perez is a customer service representative at HealthSource RI’s Walk-in Center in East Providence. The state’s health exchange had enrolled 31,771 people for health care insurance as of Dec. 10, 11 percent higher than on the same date in 2017.  / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Partnerships, high-profile merger plan lead the way in health care

Focus 12/28/2018

2018 began with health risks, routine and unforeseen, and proposed partnerships, and ended with uncertainty over the fate of the $78 billion merger of...

CVS HEALTH announced it expects its acquisition of Aetna to close after Thanksgiving pending the approval to two states. One state that has yet to approve the deal is New York. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/CHRISTOPHER LEE

CVS expects Aetna acquisition to close after Thanksgiving; two state reviews...

Health Services 11/20/2018

WOONSOCKET – Lingering approvals from New York and one other state will delay the closing of CVS Health Corp.’s $68 billion acquisition of Aetna...

TOUGH TASKS: Participants on the first panel of the Health Care Summit at the Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick discuss how to reintegrate into the workforce those who have experienced opioid overdoses and how to curb wasteful health care spending. From left: Landmark Medical Center CEO Michael Souza; UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Farrell; CVS MinuteClinic Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer Angela Patterson; and CODAC Behavioral Healthcare CEO Linda Hurley.  / PBN PHOTO/PAMELA BHATIA

Overdoses, end-of-life care challenge health system

Government 11/09/2018

The next challenge in caring for those who experience opioid overdoses is long-term reintegration into the workforce and society, panelists said during Providence Business...