Tag: Medicaid
Uncle Sam can’t whip us into shape
I trust government to soften the harshness of capitalism via subsidies , to provide health insurance , to build roads and bridges, to maintain...
Tufts Health Plan earns top national ranking
PROVIDENCE – Tufts Health Plan’s HMO plan in Rhode Island has earned a top rating from the National Committee for Quality Assurance for the...
Nursing homes care more with less
When she started working as a certified nursing assistant 22 years ago, Victoria Mitchell was assigned about eight patients during her morning shifts.
Now, Mitchell...
Five Questions With Christopher Ferraro
5Q: Christopher Ferraro | Chief financial officer, Coastal Medical Inc.
1. Coastal Medical has operated as an accountable care organization since 2012. What led...
CCAP opens dental facility in Coventry
COVENTRY – Rhode Island’s Comprehensive Community Action Program has announced the opening of a new family dental center in the town.
The center, a newly...
Medicare for All would be more expensive for all
Congressional leaders are only beginning to come to grips with the true costs of Medicare for All and the battle that lies ahead.
Most of...
Why financial literacy is elusive
Graduation season will soon be upon us, and with it, so many admonitions explaining why students are unprepared for the challenges of the real...
Undermining of ACA could reverse R.I. gains
If repeated attempts by President Donald Trump’s administration to undermine or replace the Affordable Care Act aren’t thwarted, consequences in Rhode Island could be...
Urgent-care company with R.I. site agrees to pay $2M in false-billing...
BOSTON – An urgent-care company with locations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations it defrauded Medicare...
State releases data on Medicaid employers with more than 50 employees...
PROVIDENCE – Nearly 200 employers in Rhode Island had at least 50 workers on state-supported Medicaid for at least three months last year, according...
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