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Are you concerned that rising health insurance costs will affect staffing...

HealthSource RI recently announced that enrollees in health and dental insurance will on average see monthly costs double by about $111 per person if...
HEALTHY TALK: Dr. Edward McGookin, third from the left, speaks during a panel discussion at Providence Business News’ Fall Health Care Summit: Shaping the Future of Care on Oct. 30. McGookin is chief of primary care at Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care. With him during the first of two panel discussions are, from left, Victoria Williams, assistant professor of health care administration at Rhode Island College; Dr. Roger Mitty, president and chief operating officer of Care New England Medical Group; and Sen. Pamela Lauria, a nurse practitioner. Moderating is PBN Editor Michael Mello, standing. 
PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN Health Summit panel: Could R.I. fix doctor shortage by looking...

Despite the state’s ongoing shortage of primary care providers, Rhode Island’s largest health system has seen success in recruiting doctors from surrounding states. However,...
IN TROUBLE: Linda Hurley, right, CEO of CODAC Behavioral Healthcare, talks about the difficulties experienced by Rhode ­Island health care providers at Providence Business News’ Fall Health Care Summit on Oct. 30. With her on the panel are, from left, Martha Wofford, CEO and president of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island; Dr. Philip Rizzuto, owner of Rizzuto Eyelid and Facial ­Plastic Surgery; Adam Martignetti, a vice president at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England Inc.; and R.I. Health Insurance Commissioner Cory King. 
PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Panel: Health care sector coping by ‘doing balancing acts’

Asked to define the state of health care in Rhode Island, those at the forefront of the sector provided a dismal outlook at Providence...
DR. EDWARD MCGOOKIN, third from the left, speaks during a panel discussion at Providence Business News’ Fall Health Care Summit: Shaping the Future of Care on Thursday. McGookin is chief of primary care at Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care. With him during the first of two panel discussions are, from left, Victoria Williams, assistant professor of health care administration at Rhode Island College; Dr. Roger Mitty, president and chief operating officer of Care New England Medical Group; and Sen. Pamela Lauria, a nurse practitioner. Moderating is PBN Editor Michael Mello, standing. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

‘We are in crisis’: PBN summit highlights glaring gaps in affordable,...

WARWICK – Precarious and vulnerable.  That’s how Dr. Edward McGookin would describe the state of Rhode Island’s health care.  Two safety net hospitals – Roger Williams Medical Center and...

R.I. health insurance commissioner approves double-digit 2026 rate hikes

CRANSTON – The R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner on Monday approved the commercial health insurance premiums for 2026. While the rate changes...

McKee: Health insurers required to cover COVID-19 vaccines in R.I.

PROVIDENCE – Health insurers are required to cover COVID-19 vaccines for all Rhode Island residents 6 months old and older who want one, Gov....
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. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

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...

With tax credits about to end, Rhode Islanders could pay thousands...

As the Dec. 31 end to federal subsidies for federal health care nears, pressure is mounting on insurers, providers, and the nearly 40,000 Rhode...

Federal budget leaves a big, beautiful question mark over R.I.

Gov. Daniel J. McKee sprung to action, pledging to “activate” his cabinet to prepare for federal funding cuts in a video clip released hours...

Health insurers eye huge rate hikes

More fallout from Rhode Island’s simmering health care crisis: Prepare yourself for unusually high insurance rate increases next year. Rate hikes proposed to the R.I....
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