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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...

How Trump-era work requirements could impact people who receive public benefits

The Trump administration made work requirements for people with low incomes receiving government assistance a priority in 2025. The departments of Health and Human Services,...

New R.I. budget projections shrink fiscal 2027 deficit by more than...

Call it an outsized example of finding spare change between the couch cushions. Extra revenue and lower expenses for Medicaid services and government agencies have...

Judge blocks Planned Parenthood ‘defund’ provision for 22 states, including R.I.

A federal judge has once again blocked a controversial provision barring federal Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood and other nonprofit reproductive health providers. But...
HEALTHY TALK: 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 Oct. 30. 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. 
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PBN Health Summit panel: Could R.I. fix doctor shortage by looking...

Despite the state’s ongoing shortage of primary care providers, Rhode Island’s largest health system has seen success in recruiting doctors from surrounding states. However,...

Federal budget cuts create one big not so beautiful mess in...

The human and financial costs of federal funding cuts are coming into focus for Rhode Island – and it’s not a pretty picture. Tens of...

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...
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Five Questions With: Aaron Robinson

Aaron Robinson | CEO and president, South County Health 1. Access to care in Rhode Island is at a crisis point, especially in primary...

‘The impacts are everywhere.’ Federal cuts devastate nonprofits

Rhode Island’s nonprofits are in turmoil. This important segment of the economy – 16% of the workforce – has an uncertain future and the...
OVERSEER: The Miriam Hospital President Maria Ducharme talks about the construction planned at the hospital for the next few years. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

HOSPITAL MAKEOVERS: Health systems look for shot in the arm from...

The administrative wing of The Miriam Hospital on Providence’s East Side is a mess these days, and hospital President Maria Ducharme couldn’t be happier...
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