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Are you concerned that rising health insurance costs will affect staffing...

HealthSource RI recently announced that enrollees in health and dental insurance will on average see monthly costs double by about $111 per person if...
IN TROUBLE: Linda Hurley, right, CEO of CODAC Behavioral Healthcare, talks about the difficulties experienced by Rhode ­Island health care providers at Providence Business News’ Fall Health Care Summit on Oct. 30. With her on the panel are, from left, Martha Wofford, CEO and president of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island; Dr. Philip Rizzuto, owner of Rizzuto Eyelid and Facial ­Plastic Surgery; Adam Martignetti, a vice president at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England Inc.; and R.I. Health Insurance Commissioner Cory King. 
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Panel: Health care sector coping by ‘doing balancing acts’

Asked to define the state of health care in Rhode Island, those at the forefront of the sector provided a dismal outlook at Providence...

Are you confident state providers, insurers and political leaders can ease...

Providers and some state leaders have been sounding the alarm for more than a year that the state health care system is in crisis. Incremental...
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...

Blue Cross to raise primary care payments by $40M through 2028

PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is raising its payments to primary care providers in the state by about $40...
ROUGH RETURN: Erin Thibeault went back to work as a teacher this fall after having a child but didn’t ­expect the trouble she and her husband had in finding day care for her daughter. 
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‘She-cession’ cessation: Women’s employment hits record high, but hardships endure

After taking the entire 2022-2023 school year off for maternity leave, Erin Thibeault wasn’t just eager to return to work as a first grade...
Martha L. Wofford was named CEO and president of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island in March 2021, replacing Kim A. Keck. She previously served as group vice president at DaVita Inc. in Colorado. / COURTESY BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF RHODE ISLAND

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Martha L. Wofford | Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island CEO and president As the CEO of the state’s largest health insurer, I’m...
WORKING TOGETHER: Panelist Dr. Claire Levesque of Point32Health Services Inc., third from left, speaks during the PBN Spring 2023 Health Care Summit and Health Care Heroes Awards on April 6 at the Providence Marriott Downtown. Also on the panel, from left, are Eric Swain of United HealthCare of New England Inc.; Kirsten Hokeness of Bryant University; Peter Marino of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island; Dr. Methodius Tuuli of Women & Infants Hospital; and Martha Wofford of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island. 
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Panel: Collaboration needed across the board to resolve health inequities in...

Inequities within the health care system are not only proving to be persistent, but they are getting worse. Panelists at the Providence Business News Spring...

Blue Cross Medicare Advantage plans earn 5-star rating

PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island’s 2022 Medicare Advantage health maintenance organization, or HMO, and preferred provider organization, or PPO,...
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