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When health care system breaks, everything else follows 

Fellow Rhode Island manufacturers, health care costs are no longer a background issue. They are now a front-line threat to our ability to compete, invest and take care...

Health subsidies expire, launching millions of Americans into 2026 with steep...

NEW YORK (AP) – Enhanced tax credits that have helped reduce the cost of health insurance for the vast majority of Affordable Care Act...

As premiums spike, HealthSource RI focuses on medical necessity versus low...

The open enrollment campaign for Rhode Island’s health insurance marketplace usually promotes affordability. Not this year. “In the past we’ve been saying, ‘Health care is more...

Positive recommendation?

Would you recommend a friend, family member, or colleague to start a business in R.I.? Yes: 75% No: 25% In your experience, what is the greatest challenge...
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...

Brown Health ends remote monitoring program

PROVIDENCE – Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care has cut an at-home monitoring program for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, heart...

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...
JOHN DONAHUE has been named the managing director of the newly-created Self-Insured Strategic Solutions ream at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island. / COURTESY BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF RHODE ISLAND

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...
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