Tag: Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner
BCBSRI utilization review for mental health and substance-use disorder found deficient...
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island’s processes for approving coverage of services – known as utilization review – were found...
OHIC approves 2019 health insurance rates, including mostly increases but some...
CRANSTON – The Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner published the approved commercial health insurance rates for 2019 on Friday, saying that the rates...
OHIC: Short-term health plans not approved for sale in R.I.
PROVIDENCE - The Trump Administration’s plan to expand access to short-term, limited duration health plans which omit coverage mandated by the Affordable Care Act...
OHIC reducing small-business rates for suspended health insurance tax in Q4
Correction: A previous version of this story mischaracterized estimated savings for businesses due to the suspension of a federal health insurance tax that had...
R.I. establishes health insurance market stability workgroup
PROVIDENCE – HealthSource RI and the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner announced the establishment Tuesday of the Market Stability Workgroup, a collection of...
With new year, new R.I. rules take effect
PROVIDENCE – With the advent of the new calendar year, new provisions from the fiscal 2018 budget have taken effect.
The 2018 fiscal year budget...
OHIC announces new 2018 rates in response to Trump’s CSR cut
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner has approved new rates increases for HealthSource RI’s silver-level health plans sold on the...
OHIC expects double-digit health insurance rate increases
PROVIDENCE — The R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner reported that preliminary estimates of individual market health insurance rates see insurance premiums increasing between...
ACA reform stalls as GOP takes second shot at repeal
PROVIDENCE — HealthSource RI Executive Director Zach Sherman’s hopes for health insurance market-stabilizing legislation were dashed Tuesday when U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor &...
Primary care investment slowed rising health care costs in R.I.
PROVIDENCE – Annual check-ups and acute care for urgent illness don’t keep people healthy long-term, so Rhode Island’s Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner...
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