Tag: BCBSRI
BCBSRI grants $225K to Bradley for youth mental health services
PROVIDENCE – Bradley Hospital will receive $225,000 in support from Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island to enhance and expand the Pediatric...
BCBSRI to add PCP scores for cost efficiency and quality in...
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is adding primary care performance ratings for in-network doctors to its online “Find a...
OHIC reveals proposed insurance rate changes for 2020
PROVIDENCE – Health insurers doing business in Rhode Island have submitted their requests for rate increases for 2020, the R.I. Office of the Health...
BCBSRI grants $218K to anti-obesity programs
PROVIDENCE — Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island has awarded $218,000 through its BlueAngel Community Health Grants to nine organizations encouraging physical...
BCBSRI finds that 40% of its covered emergency visits unnecessary
PROVIDENCE — An internal task force at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island has identified 40 percent of emergency department visits it...
BCBSRI, Chicago-based Oak Street Health plan 3 R.I. Medicare primary care...
PROVIDENCE — Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is partnering with Chicago-based Oak Street Health, a network of primary care centers serving...
BCBSRI utilization review for mental health and substance-use disorder found deficient...
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island’s processes for approving coverage of services – known as utilization review – were found...
OHIC: BCBSRI to contribute $5M to Behavioral Health Fund
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner, in the middle of a market conduct examination of the state’s four major insurers’...
Retired BCBSRI CEO Peter Andruszkiewicz paid $1.1M after leaving
PROVIDENCE — Peter Andruszkiewicz, former president and CEO at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, was paid incentive payments and severance totaling...
BCBSRI: Addiction recovery better at home
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is working to change common opinion that recovery must happen at far-away locales, sharing...