Tag: Medicaid
EPI report highlights importance of Medicaid to Rhode Islanders
PROVIDENCE – Without the billions of dollars the state budgets for Medicaid each year, Sara Braganca might not have found the resources to survive...
State to restore hospital charity care fund, Medicaid enrollment growing faster...
PROVIDENCE — Executive Office of Health and Human Services’ Medicaid Director Patrick Tigue has recommended increasing the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital funding to the...
EOHHS extends UHIP contract with Deloitte through March 2019
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services has extended its contract with Deloitte, the vendor responsible for the state’s Unified...
Hospital leaders testify against cutting state match to Medicaid funds
PROVIDENCE – On Thursday, hospital leaders from throughout the state testified at the House Committee on Finance’s Human Services Subcommittee hearing on the Executive...
R.I.’s Single Audit finds shortcomings in state IT planning, execution
PROVIDENCE – The lack of a state government strategic plan to replace and enhance key financial systems is but one conclusion reached in the...
R.I. awards $1.3 million to URI for health care workforce training
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Rhode Island’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services has awarded $1.3 million from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
Neighborhood loses $1.7 million in 2017, as proposed Medicaid cuts worry...
SMITHFIELD – Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island posted a net loss of $1.7 million in 2017, and President and CEO Peter M. Marino...
Prescription drug costs a crime
President Donald Trump has complained that U.S. drug companies are “getting away with murder.” For once the hyperbole is forgivable: It suggests he takes...
What’s bad for GE is worse for America
General Electric’s multibillion-dollar loss in a unit that sold long-term-care insurance is a blow from which the iconic company is still reeling. But it’s...
ACLU files federal lawsuit over Medicaid benefits
PROVIDENCE – The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit that seeks class action status on behalf of people who say they...
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