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OHIC HAS ANNOUNCED rate increase requests by the state's major insurers for 2019. Above, Marie L. Ganim, the Rhode Island Health Insurance Commissioner, speaks during the October 2017 PBN Health Care Summit. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ RUPERT WHITELEY

OHIC lists health insurance rate increase requests for 2019

Health Services 05/30/2018

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,...

INSIDE KNOWLEDGE: Members of the first panel at the 2018 Spring Providence Business News Health Care Summit April 6 at the Providence Marriott Downtown: from left, Dr. Gus Manocchia of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island; Stephen Farrell, CEO of UnitedHealthcare of New England; Dr. Claire Levesque, board-certified neurologist and chief medical officer for commercial products at Tufts Health Plan; and Joan Kwiatkowski, CEO of CareLink and the PACE Organization of Rhode Island.  / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Health Care Summit: System needs more primary care doctors, cost control

Government 04/13/2018

Two themes led much of the discussion during the first of two panels at Providence Business News’ 2018 Spring Health Care Summit: primary care...

MAKING MEMORIES: Ivette Luna, lead consumer-engagement specialist at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, with her 2-year-old son Daniel and husband, Jose. The family portrait on the wall was taken during a trip to the Dominican Republic.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Travel policies fill gaps in health plans

Business Services 04/06/2018

To celebrate her son Daniel’s first birthday and introduce him to his extended family in the Dominican Republic, Ivette Luna and her husband, Jose...

TUFTS HEALTH PLAN has been named the official presenting sponsor of the 2018 Rhode Races Half Marathon Series, which kicks off with the Newport Road Race at Easton’s Beach on Saturday, April 14. / COURTESY RHODE RACES & EVENTS

Tufts Health Plan named 2018 Rhode Races Half Marathon Series sponsor

Health Services 02/05/2018

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Races & Events has named Tufts Health Plan as the official presenting sponsor of the 2018 Rhode Races Half Marathon Series and...

THE EIGHT DOWNTOWN Providence submarkets had office vacancies in 2017 ranging from a low of 1.3 percent in the Empire submarket to a high of 14.9 percent in the Promenade area, according to an overview prepared for Rhode Island by CB Richard Ellis New England. / COURTESY CBRE

CBRE: Downtown Providence office vacancy rate drops to 11.9 percent

Real Estate 02/01/2018

PROVIDENCE – How important is being able to walk easily from the office to a mass transit station? Enough to warrant a special mention in the market overview...

CONVERSING: Crossroads Rhode Island members, from left, Heather Fortin, human resources and individual volunteer coordinator; Cicely Dove, vice president of family services; and Robert Upham, director of human resources, attend the PBN Workplace Excellence, Diversity and Inclusion Summit held Dec. 7 at the Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SKORSKI

‘Unconscious bias’ barrier to workplace inclusion

Subscriber Only 12/15/2017

“If we tolerate intolerance, then tolerance will become extinct,” warned Stephanie Huckel, manager of culture and diversity and inclusion at Blue Cross & Blue...

PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS hosted its first-ever Workforce Excellence, Diversity and Inclusion summit Thursday.

PBN hosts first Workforce Excellence, Diversity & Inclusion summit

People 12/07/2017

WARWICK – Unconscious bias, strategic diversification to include people of color and women as well as the roots of diversity and inclusion from how...

Five Questions With Helene Forte

Health Services 10/06/2017

Helene Forte | Vice president, public plans emerging markets, Tufts Health Plan 1. Why did Tufts Health Plan want to enter R.I.’s Medicaid market? As...

THE SENATE GOP has abandoned its effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and Rhode Island officials want to renew efforts to strengthen it. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

Affordable Care Act reform hopes renewed after GOP repeal abandoned

Health Services 10/02/2017

PROVIDENCE – Local hopes for bipartisan health insurance market-stabilizing legislation were rekindled Sep. 25 when Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, opposed the latest Affordable Care...