Tag: Medicaid
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...
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...
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...
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...
Neronha, coalition seek preliminary injunction to block defunding of Planned Parenthood
PROVIDENCE – R.I. Attorney General Peter F. Neronha, 21 other attorneys general and Pa. Gov. Josh D. Shapiro on Thursday filed a motion for...
CVS Health subsidiary Omnicare files for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection
CVS Health Corp. subsidiary Omnicare has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection two months after the long-term care business was ordered to pay $949...



















