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Business group awarded $300K to support health care payment reform

Health Services 06/25/2023

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The Rhode Island Business Group on Health has been awarded $300,000 by Arnold Ventures LLC, a philanthropic organization that looks to...

COVID COVERAGE: Dr. Philip Chan, consultant medical director at the R.I. Department of Health, says downgrading the emergency status for the COVID-19 pandemic will not change the availability of vaccines and treatments.  PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Health insurers will soon have option to start charging for COVID...

Focus 04/28/2023

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...

CUSTOM TREATMENT: Normand Audette, of Cumberland, had some of his lung tissue tested for biomarkers that allowed doctors to develop the most effective way to battle his cancer. Starting in 2024, such advanced testing will be covered by health insurers in Rhode Island.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

R.I. requires insurers cover biomarker testing

Focus 09/02/2022

Dizziness, memory loss, anxiety and a perpetually swollen left foot and ankle are among the side effects Normand Audette has experienced from taking an...

Study finds Lifespan-CNE merger would boost R.I. academic medicine industry

Education 01/11/2022

PROVIDENCE – An independent study commissioned by Brown University found that Rhode Island trails most of its neighboring states in the academic medicine industry. According...

LIFESPAN AND CARE NEW ENGLAND on Oct. 1 submitted a revised Hospital Conversion Act application related to their proposed merger agreement, in response to questions from the R.I. Department of Health and the R.I. Office of the Attorney General.

How confident are you that the latest proposed merger between Lifespan...

Government 10/08/2021

Lifespan Corp. and Care New England Health System earlier this year signed an agreement to merge into an integrated academic health system with Brown...

OHIC: Proposed hospital system merger has ‘significant implications’ for health care

Government 06/29/2021

PROVIDENCE – The proposed merger between Lifespan Corp. and Care New England Health System has significant implications for the affordability, access to and quality...

Health insurers seek rate increases for all individual, group plans in...

Government 06/28/2021

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s largest health insurance companies are seeking rate increases for 2022 that range from 2.9% to 17.5% for the small- and...

REGISTERED NURSE Jessica Pace, left, checks the intravenous line of Dolce Contreras, of Central Falls, who was receiving convalescent plasma therapy at Rhode Island Hospital last October as part of a treatment against COVID-19. / COURTESY LIFESPAN CORP./WILLIAM MURPHY

Insurers pay COVID-19 costs for now

Coronavirus 04/16/2021

Rhode Island is requiring health insurers operating in the state to cover out-of-pocket expenses for customers in need of COVID-19 treatment, raising the question...

MARIE L. GANIM, Rhode Island's health insurance commissioner, signed a letter Wednesday, pledging to work with President-elect Joe Biden on health policy recommendations. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ RUPERT WHITELY

R.I. health insurance commissioner joins other states in supporting ACA recommendations

Coronavirus 12/23/2020

PROVIDENCE – Marie Ganim, Rhode Island's outgoing health insurance commissioner, signed a letter on Wednesday pledging to work with President-elect Joe Biden on health...