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THE REVEAL: John R. Fernandez, CEO and president of Lifespan Corp., uncovers the new branding for the health system – Brown University Health – in June. 
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Pact between Lifespan, Brown may change R.I. health care landscape

(Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series exploring issues surrounding the training of physicians in Rhode Island and its effect on...

Report: R.I. hospitals’ operating costs to total expenses second highest in...

WAKEFIELD – As hospital expenses have skyrocketed in the past few decades, Rhode Island has struggled far more than other states with rising overhead...

R.I. commercial health care premiums are among the highest in the...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Rhode Islanders pay among the highest commercial health insurance premiums in the nation, according to a report from the Rhode Island...

Business group awarded $300K to support health care payment reform

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The Rhode Island Business Group on Health has been awarded $300,000 by Arnold Ventures LLC, a philanthropic organization that looks to...
AT A SECOND public comment meeting on the proposed Lifespan Corp. and Care New England Health System merger, many participants voiced concerns that the integrated health system, which would include Brown University, would monopolize the state's health care.

Monopoly concerns dominate second Lifespan-CNE public comment meeting

PROVIDENCE – Throughout a two-hour meeting held on Wednesday on the proposed Lifespan Corp. and Care New England Health System merger, many attendees raised...

Needed Slater overhaul will be costly

The price of transforming Eleanor Slater Hospital into a well-run, well-appointed hospital for Rhode Islanders with significant psychiatric or medical needs is unknown, but...

OHIC: Proposed hospital system merger has ‘significant implications’ for health care

PROVIDENCE – The proposed merger between Lifespan Corp. and Care New England Health System has significant implications for the affordability, access to and quality...
RECENT IMPROVEMENTS: HealthSource RI Director Zachary W. Sherman speaks with Robin Dionne, HSRI chief public affairs officer. Sherman said recent improvements to the HSRI for Employers program include technology advances that have allowed HSRI to connect employers with ancillary products to supplement health and dental plans.
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HSRI: Stable but will it ever cover costs?

Soon after the state established HealthSource RI in 2014, it was recognized as one of the nation’s most successful health-benefits exchanges in meeting enrollment...
FIRST STEP: Rhode Island Business Group on Health Executive Director Al Charbonneau says a federal rule requiring hospitals to post pricing data online is the first of many steps to price transparency. Next to Charbonneau is Hospital Association of Rhode Island President Teresa Paiva Weed.
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New CMS rule requires hospitals to post pricing data online

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires hospitals’ pricing data to be posted to their websites, billed as the first step toward a...
INDUSTRY CONCERNS: Members of the second panel at the 2018 Spring Providence Business News Health Care Summit discuss cost-of-care concerns in the industry. From left, Al Charbonneau, executive director of the Rhode Island Business Group on Health; David Burnett, acting chief operating officer for Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island; and R.I. Health Commissioner Marie L. Ganim.
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Summit: More questions than answers on health care cost savings

While the Affordable Care Act still requires people to buy health insurance, the Republican tax bill signed into law late last year zeroed out...
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