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GOV. GINA M. RAIMONDO has directed the R.I. Department of Adminstration to implement reforms that will enhance accountacbility, strengthen the state's standards for certification and licensing for employees and reforms that will increase the state's ability to discipline those who fail to meet those standards. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ELI SHERMAN

Raimondo implements accountability reforms following EOHHS debacle

Government 06/08/2018

PROVIDENCE – Following the dismissal of an Executive Office of Health and Human Services lawyer for failing to maintain standing with the R.I. Supreme...

IT STARTS AT THE TOP: Critics and political opponents say Gov. Gina M. Raimondo should have known about the deception that a state lawyer was committing by not filing a timely appeal to a court ruling about state reimbursement rates to nursing homes. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Business as usual at EOHHS not an acceptable way to govern

Editorial and Op-Ed 06/08/2018

Should Gov. Gina M. Raimondo have known about the malfeasance of an attorney in the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, one that...

WHERE DOES THE BUCK STOP? How high into the Raimondo administration should the ax fall for the EOHHS Medicaid appeal mess fall?

Who should be held responsible for the missed appeal in the...

Government 06/08/2018

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...

THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF Health and Human Services failed to file an appeal to a decision related to Medicaid reimbursement payments to nursing facilities, potentially costing the state tens of millions of dollars.

Missed EOHHS appeal filing could cost state tens of millions of...

Government 06/04/2018

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...

Health Services 04/27/2018

PROVIDENCE — Executive Office of Health and Human Services’ Medicaid Director Patrick Tigue has recommended increasing the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital funding to the...

THE FISCAL 2017 SINGLE AUDIT for Rhode Island consisted of 79 recommendations. Many of the issues were related to the RIBridges system, part of the UHIP computer overhaul. / COURTESY OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL

R.I.’s Single Audit finds shortcomings in state IT planning, execution

Economic Activity 04/09/2018

PROVIDENCE – The lack of a state government strategic plan to replace and enhance key financial systems is but one conclusion reached in the...

THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE of Health and Human Services awarded $1.5 million to URI to create programs to train health care professionals of the future. / COURTESY URI

R.I. awards $1.3 million to URI for health care workforce training

Health Services 04/03/2018

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...