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THE REGULATOR: Cory King, Rhode Island’s health insurance commissioner, is overseeing changes to the state’s health care affordability standards requiring insurers to raise the amount they spend on primary care services and lower the number of prior authorization requirements. 
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Insurers face new rules to bolster primary care

Health care professionals are closely monitoring the fallout of new regulations the R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner established this year that are...
NEWPORT HOSPITAL'S birthing center is one of the services that Brown University Health has said it is considering discontinuing in the face of the health system's financial woes. / COURTESY NEWPORT HOSPITAL

Brown Health grapples with balancing community and its own financial needs

Brown University Health is in a tough spot. The nonprofit health system is considering cutting several crucial services and programs in order to reach its...
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