Tag: Executive Office of Health and Human Services
Nursing homes care more with less
When she started working as a certified nursing assistant 22 years ago, Victoria Mitchell was assigned about eight patients during her morning shifts.
Now, Mitchell...
House Committee on Oversight: MTM, EOHHS have until Feb. 28 to...
PROVIDENCE — Medical Transportation Management Inc., is one month and hundreds of complaints into their three-and-a-half-year, $115 million contract with the Executive Office of...
R.I. expands coverage of hepatitis C-fighting drugs to all Medicaid enrollees
PROVIDENCE — When Medicaid enrollee Michelle Giron was denied coverage for hepatitis C-curing drugs the second time in May, she and the Rhode Island...
Raimondo implements accountability reforms following EOHHS debacle
PROVIDENCE – Following the dismissal of an Executive Office of Health and Human Services lawyer for failing to maintain standing with the R.I. Supreme...
Business as usual at EOHHS not an acceptable way to govern
Should Gov. Gina M. Raimondo have known about the malfeasance of an attorney in the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, one that...
Who should be held responsible for the missed appeal in the...
With the failure of the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services to file an appeal of a R.I. Superior Court ruling in...
Missed EOHHS appeal filing could cost state tens of millions of...
PROVIDENCE – A missed appeal from a lawyer for the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services for a case concerning the interpretation...
State to restore hospital charity care fund, Medicaid enrollment growing faster...
PROVIDENCE — Executive Office of Health and Human Services’ Medicaid Director Patrick Tigue has recommended increasing the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital funding to the...
R.I.’s Single Audit finds shortcomings in state IT planning, execution
PROVIDENCE – The lack of a state government strategic plan to replace and enhance key financial systems is but one conclusion reached in the...
R.I. awards $1.3 million to URI for health care workforce training
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Rhode Island’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services has awarded $1.3 million from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...