Tag: Medicaid
Health insurers will soon have option to start charging for COVID...
For the past three years, grabbing an over-the-counter or laboratory COVID-19 test has been easy, relatively quick and entirely free. But soon, some Rhode...
Panel: Collaboration needed across the board to resolve health inequities in...
Inequities within the health care system are not only proving to be persistent, but they are getting worse.
Panelists at the Providence Business News Spring...
Wait times much longer than expected as state begins Medicaid renewals
PROVIDENCE – Wait times are already a concern as the state begins the Medicaid reenrollment process, which had been suspended since the beginning of...
Medicaid renewals put state leaders on alert
Lindsay Lang feels a certain amount of pride that the rate of Rhode Islanders with health insurance coverage is among the highest in the...
R.I. will restart Medicaid renewals April 1
PROVIDENCE – The state will restart Medicaid renewals on April 1 and will stagger them into next year to help ensure a smoother process,...
Recovery Connections Centers CEO, employee arrested on federal health care fraud...
PROVIDENCE – Two top officials of a local addiction treatment organization have been taken into custody Thursday on charges of carrying out what federal...
R.I. KIDS COUNT: Racial disparities remain in maternal and children’s health
PROVIDENCE – Racial and ethnic disparities still exist in maternal health in Rhode Island, according to a new report by Rhode Island KIDS COUNT.
The...
Lots of sound and fury on U.S. debt, but not a...
WASHINGTON (AP) – For all the sound and fury about raising the nation's debt limit, most economists say federal borrowing is not at a...
Record 16.3M seek health coverage through ‘Obamacare’
WASHINGTON (AP) – A record 16.3 million people sought health insurance through the Affordable Care Act this year, double the number covered when the marketplaces first...
Some R.I. officials say job vacancies a big part of projected...
The projected $610 million budget surplus awaiting the General Assembly and the administration of Gov. Daniel J. McKee has been the subject of speculation...
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