Tag: Medicaid
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...
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...
MINDING THE GAP: Deficit projection narrows, but fiscal risk factors...
State budget officials are projecting that the government will enter the new year facing a fiscal 2027 budget deficit of $101 million.
For Rhode Island...
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...
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