Tag: Medicaid
RIHCA urges suspension of nursing home minimum staffing law
PROVIDENCE – According to the Rhode Island Health Care Association, nursing homes in the Ocean State are about to face millions in fines for...
R.I. Senate passes bill extending postpartum Medicaid coverage for low-income women
PROVIDENCE – Legislation aimed at improving the health of low-income new mothers has passed in the R.I. Senate.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Maryellen Goodwin,...
EOHHS names Medicaid program director
PROVIDENCE – Kristin Pono Sousa, Rhode Island’s interim Medicaid program director since December of 2021, has been appointed to fill the position permanently.
Sousa will...
Babineau: ‘It is going to take us years to rebuild’
The COVID-19 pandemic left Rhode Island’s health care industry a shell of its former self, with a staffing crisis that continues to have massive...
Panel: ARPA funds can help mend health safety net
Lindsay Lang sees trouble coming in maintaining health insurance for some Rhode Islanders, and she wants state lawmakers to act before it’s too late.
Lang,...
Pleas to fix R.I.’s ‘broken’ behavioral health system
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, treatment providers, advocates and lawmakers are calling for Rhode Island to confront its problems with access to...
Summit: Health system rebuild will take years
It can’t compare to the horror of a real war, such as in Ukraine, but health care systems have indeed been in a life-and-death...
Missed deadline costs Tufts Health Plan millions
PROVIDENCE – Tufts Health Plan learned the hard way in January that missing a deadline by two minutes is no excuse – and costly,...
Blue Cross offers companionship program for Medicare members
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island Medicare Advantage members now have free access to a companionship program for seniors.
Papa, a...
RIPEC: R.I. total spending grew 16.1% from FY14-19
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s state and local governments outspent the national average in fiscal 2019, the latest year for which such data are available,...
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