Tag: Health Care Costs
Stop & Shop employees secure wage increases in new contract
PROVIDENCE – Unionized Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. employees in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut have secured higher starting wages, raises for established employees...
Use simple economics to contain health costs
Spending on U.S. health care is out of control, expanding steadily from 5% of gross domestic product in 1960 to 18% in 2018. There...
Brown researchers brief state health leaders on health care cost trends
PROVIDENCE – Some of Rhode Island’s top health care leaders heard from Brown University researchers last week on health care costs and cost growth...
BCBSRI names Donohue managing director of self-insurance team
PROVIDENCE – John Donohue has been named the managing director of the newly created Self-Insured Strategic Solutions business unit at Blue Cross & Blue...
Health care savings model still worth exploring
Important new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Sept. 4 showed a promising experiment aimed at reducing health care...
Amazon isn’t only retail giant trying to remake health care
NEW YORK – Amazon.com Inc. says it wants to remake health care for its workers. But its biggest rival is beating it to the...
Memorial Hospital’s time has come and gone
When Care New England bought Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island in 2013, the Providence-based hospital chain was seen as the savior of the Pawtucket...
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