Tag: OHIC
Public comment open for OHIC’s proposed health insurance network regulation
PROVIDENCE — In 2017, The Health Care Accessibility and Quality Assurance Act switched jurisdiction for health insurance network plans from the R.I. Department of...
OHIC: BCBSRI to contribute $5M to Behavioral Health Fund
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner, in the middle of a market conduct examination of the state’s four major insurers’...
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...
Latest Trump administration action puts health insurance market ‘at risk’
PROVIDENCE – President Donald Trump’s administration is temporarily halting $10.4 billion in Affordable Care Act risk management payments to insurers. The move could have...
OHIC, HSRI pursue health care reinsurance to reduce 2020 rates
PROVIDENCE — HealthSourceRI and the R.I. Office of Health Insurance Commissioner are pursuing a federal waiver to set up a health care reinsurance program...
Market Stability Workgroup advises R.I. health insurance mandate
PROVIDENCE — The Market Stability Workgroup is recommending a Rhode Island version of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate be enacted sooner rather than...
OHIC lists health insurance rate increase requests for 2019
PROVIDENCE — The R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner has released the rate increase requests of the state’s four largest insurers for individual,...
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...
PBN 2018 Spring Health Care Summit examines strategic, legislative hurdles to...
PROVIDENCE — Panelists at the 2018 Spring Providence Business News Health Care Summit at the Providence Marriott Friday morning agreed primary care physicians suffer...
Report: Partners health care expensive in Mass.
PROVIDENCE — Partners HealthCare of Massachusetts received the highest share of commercial payments and had the highest-priced hospitals in Massachusetts in 2016 while Partners' physician...