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Booking a COVID-19 vaccine? Some are reporting canceled appointments or insurance...

Coronavirus 09/22/2023

MILWAUKEE (AP) – Some people seeking the newest COVID-19 vaccine are running into high demand, insurance headaches and supply delays coast to coast. Millions of the...

ROUNDTABLE: Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island CEO and President Peter Marino, center, meets with staff at the health insurer’s Smithfield headquarters. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

‘Turbulent time’ for those up for Medicaid renewal

Focus 09/01/2023

The staff at Thundermist Health Center has been bracing for a flood of work this year, and that flood has now arrived. The center, a...

TARA DEMOURA is senior vice president of commercial group markets at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island. / COURTESY BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF RHODE ISLAND

Five Questions With: Tara DeMoura

Health Services 08/20/2023

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island recently ranked No. 1 in member satisfaction among commercial health plans in the Northeast, the third...

Going digital with wellness at Blue Cross & Blue Shield...

Financial Services 08/11/2023

Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island 2023 500-1,499 Employees 3. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island CEO (or equivalent): Martha L. Wofford, CEO and...

R.I. ATTORNEY GENERAL Peter F. Neronha has filed objections with the R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner responding to requests made by six health insurers to increase their rates next year. / COURTESY PETER F. NERONHA

Neronha files objections to health insurers’ rate increase requests

Government 08/08/2023

PROVIDENCE – R.I. Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced Tuesday that he filed objections with the R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner in...

CVS Health tops Q2 expectations even as pharmacy pricing, increased care...

Economic Activity 08/02/2023

CVS Health Corp. topped second-quarter expectations, but the health care giant's profit sank as pricing pressure hurt its drugstores and a jump in care...

Jessica Marfeo

Financial Services 07/21/2023

PBN 40 Under Forty 2023 Awards Jessica Marfeo | 39 | Managing director, Medicare product, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island What have...

Kicked off Medicaid: Millions at risk as states trim rolls

Government 04/28/2023

WASHINGTON (AP) – Days out from a surgery and with a young son undergoing chemotherapy, Kyle McHenry was scrambling to figure out if his...

CVS names Kane president of Aetna

Economy 04/18/2023

PROVIDENCE – CVS Health Corp. has named former Humana executive Brian Kane as the new leader of Aetna Inc., the company’s Connecticut-based health care...