Tag: Medicaid
R.I. requires insurers cover biomarker testing
Dizziness, memory loss, anxiety and a perpetually swollen left foot and ankle are among the side effects Normand Audette has experienced from taking an...
CNE protects jobs but for how long?
Care New England Health System’s leaders say they’ve finally found a set of financial projections they think can help keep the state’s second-biggest hospital...
Nursing homes to get $30M boost
Rhode Island’s nursing home industry has been ravaged during the COVID-19 pandemic, but some financial help appears to be on the way.
The state budget...
CODE RED: Amid closures, nursing homes fight for survival
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, the staff at Cherry Hill Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Johnston...
EOHHS: Medicaid to cover doula, community health workers services
CRANSTON – Doula and community health worker services are now covered by Medicaid in Rhode Island after receiving federal approval from the Centers for...
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,...
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