Tag: Medicaid
Summit panelists: R.I. trying to chip away at the many health...
When primary care nurse practitioner and state Sen. Pamela Lauria, D-Bristol, sees patients with urgent symptoms, she finds that a potential medical emergency isn’t...
Health care panel: Team approach needed to make system fixes
It doesn’t take a clinical degree to diagnose why Rhode Island has difficulty retaining health care providers who completed their education in the Ocean...
PBN health care summit: Multifaceted approach needed to repair R.I.’s ailing...
PROVIDENCE – When primary care providers choose to practice in Massachusetts or Connecticut over Rhode Island, it’s not about luxury.
Across the board, the Ocean...
Could Scituate primary care safety net be an answer for R.I.?
Dr. Michael Fine says he walked into the emergency department at The Miriam Hospital in Providence and saw “people spilling into the halls all...
Thundermist Health Center joins Community Care Cooperative
WARWICK – Thundermist Health Center recently joined the Community Care Cooperative, also known as C3, which is a nonprofit accountable care organization that supports...
RIPEC: McKee’s FY 2027 budget controls spending but relies on ‘millionaires...
PROVIDENCE – Spending is relatively restrained following a period of extraordinary growth, however expenditures rely on a new "millionaires tax," The R.I. Public Expenditure...
McKee’s proposed FY2027 budget drops GLP-1 drugs for weight loss from...
Are GLP-1 drugs prescribed for weight loss becoming too outsized a line item for continued coverage through the state Medicaid program? That’s what Gov....
R.I.’s hospital crisis could deepen
Federal health insurance cuts are poised to amplify dire financial problems at Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, observers say,...
McKee seeks ‘millionaires tax’ in record $14.86B spending proposal
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee on Thursday released a $14.86 billion spending proposal for the next fiscal year that includes a so-called 'millionaires...
Wood River Health staffers discuss impact of housing support on health outcomes...
HOPKINTON – Wood River Health staff members attended the New England Rural Health Association’s regional conference in Groton, Conn., in November, where they shared strategies...
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