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FOLLOW-UP: Sam Slade, center, vice president employer segment, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, and Melissa Cummings, right, senior vice president, chief customer officer, BCBSRI, talk with attendees following the PBN Health Care Summit on Oct. 5. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

‘Creative’ changes to ACA possible, but repeal dead

Government 10/13/2017

Affordable Care Act reform is more likely than repeal, and employers should take better advantage of cost-saving, health-plan tools in the meantime, according to...

THE SENATE GOP has abandoned its effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and Rhode Island officials want to renew efforts to strengthen it. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

Affordable Care Act reform hopes renewed after GOP repeal abandoned

Health Services 10/02/2017

PROVIDENCE – Local hopes for bipartisan health insurance market-stabilizing legislation were rekindled Sep. 25 when Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, opposed the latest Affordable Care...

PBN fall 2017 Health Care Summit set for Oct. 5 in...

Health Services 09/29/2017

PROVIDENCE - PBN’s fall 2017 Health Care Summit will take place Oct. 5 at the Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick from 8:30-11:30 p.m. This year the...

THE SENATE GOP has revived its effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act but is running out of time to pass the measure with a simple majority. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

ACA reform stalls as GOP takes second shot at repeal

Health Services 09/21/2017

PROVIDENCE — HealthSource RI Executive Director Zach Sherman’s hopes for health insurance market-stabilizing legislation were dashed Tuesday when U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor &...

RIMA Health Care Summit to update employers on ACA changes

Health Services 09/04/2017

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Manufacturers Association’s inaugural Health Care Summit, at the Providence Marriott on Thursday, Sept. 14, will update employers on Affordable...

Report: NHPRI has most-affordable plan options on HealthSource RI

Health Services 09/04/2017

SMITHFIELD – The state’s Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner report on 2018 coverage rates on Rhode Island’s health insurance exchange marks Neighborhood Health...

DR. KATHLEEN HITTNER, R.I. Health Insurance Commissioner, promised she would investigate a waiver option from the federal government that would allow sole-proprietor businesses to purchase health insurance on the small group market, something that is now disallowed under the Affordable Care Act. /PBN FILE PHOTO/STEPHANIE ALVAREZ EWENS

Small-business owners want ‘bold action’ to address rising health care costs

Health Services 06/19/2017

CRANSTON – Dr. Kathleen Hittner, R.I. Health Insurance Commissioner, and the Health Insurance Advisory Council recently heard from several small-business owners who expressed a...