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GROWING GAP: Brown University Health nurse practitioner Pamela Lauria, who is also a Democratic state senator representing Barrington and East Providence, worries that the concierge care model, in which patients pay a monthly or annual fee to see a provider with a smaller patient load, will intensify disparities in the statewide healthcare system.
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Rise of concierge healthcare has raised concerns

As a nurse practitioner at Brown University Health’s East Greenwich office, Pamela Lauria has met with new patients who tell her that she’s their...

GA approves $18M infusion to save Roger Williams and Fatima hospitals

PROVIDENCE – The General Assembly on Tuesday unanimously approved an $18 million transfer to help close the sale of Roger Williams Medical Center and...

New potential buyer for Roger Williams, Fatima Hospital emerges

PROVIDENCE – As a federal court considers a request to potentially close Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital by the...
THE REGULATOR: Cory King, Rhode Island’s health insurance commissioner, is overseeing changes to the state’s health care affordability standards requiring insurers to raise the amount they spend on primary care services and lower the number of prior authorization requirements. 
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Insurers face new rules to bolster primary care

Health care professionals are closely monitoring the fallout of new regulations the R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner established this year that are...

Health care community celebrates wins in proposed FY 2026 state budget

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island health care advocates and leaders are celebrating the allocations for hospitals, medical practices and providers included in the proposed $14.3...

Does primary care plan have a shot at solving crisis?

Gov. Daniel J. McKee’s new multipronged plan to shore up the state’s sinking primary care system has some in the industry questioning whether it...

Rhode Island Medical Society releases state primary care compendium

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Medical Society recently released The Rhode Island Primary Care Compendium. The compendium is available online and was created to provide...
DR. MICHAEL FINE, former director of the R.I. Department of Health, says taking steps such as creating new residencies for primary care physicians and nurse practitioners would be a start to reducing the shortage in personnel in primary care, followed by new scholarship programs with the caveat that recipients agree to practice in Rhode Island. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Addressing doctor shortage could be a primary challenge for lawmakers

State legislators might consider a host of potential prescriptions to ease Rhode Island’s worsening shortage of primary care doctors when they convene in January,...
POWER OF THE PEN: Gov. Daniel J. McKee, sitting, signs Rhode Island’s “shield law” that protects health care providers who provide reproductive and transgender care to patients from states where those services are illegal. The signing took place in June and was attended by health care professionals and state legislators. 
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R.I.’s new ‘shield law’ protecting providers of abortions, gender-affirming care

Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, some health care providers have...

R.I. joining more licensing compacts, but will there be any difference?

Rhode Island is joining another interstate medical ­licensure compact that allows health care workers to practice in multiple states with an expedited licensing process,...
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