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MARIE L. GANIM, the Rhode Island Health Insurance Commissioner, pictured here during the Oct. 5, 2017, PBN Health Care Summit. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ RUPERT WHITELEY

OHIC lists new goals for providers on patient-centered medical homes, risk-based...

PROVIDENCE — The Office of Health Insurance Commissioner has issued the 2018 requirements for its Care Transformation and Alternative Payment Methodology Plans, updates intended...
THE OFFICE OF THE HEALTH Insurance Commissioner and HealthSource RI announced that new rates for silver-level plans in the individual health insurance market place will increase 18-20 percent due to the elimination of Cost Sharing Reduction payments to insurers from the federal government. However, these increases will largely be offset by federal tax credits as mandated by law. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

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...
MARIE L. GANIM, the Rhode Island Health Insurance Commissioner said that in order to mitigate impacts on health insurance rates, the state will focus insurance rate increases on the previously subsidized, passing the cost to the federal government. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ RUPERT WHITELEY

OHIC works to limit health insurance subsidy cut’s effect on insured

PROVIDENCE — When President Donald Trump signed an executive order canceling Cost Sharing Reduction subsidies to 17,000 Rhode Islanders who depend on the program to afford...
THE SENATE GOP has revived its effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act but is running out of time to pass the measure with a simple majority. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

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 &...
AS COSTS RISE: A chart showing the total percentage of primary care spending of total health care spending. Actual figures are higher than the state mandate as a result of individual companies' investment beyond regulatory requirements. / COURTESY OHIC

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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