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Neronha: Patients ‘caught in the middle’ of Brown Health, UnitedHealthcare impasse

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Office of the Attorney General is warning people enrolled in UnitedHealthcare's Medicare Advantage insurance that stalled negotiations between UnitedHealthcare and...
LOCAL HEALTH insurers have submitted requested commercial health insurance rate hikes for 2027 for individual, small- and large-group plans, according to the R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner announced Monday. Five insurers – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, UnitedHealthcare, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England Inc, Aetna and Cigna each filed large-group rates, shown above. / COURTESY R.I. OFFICE OF THE HEALTH INSURANCE COMMISSIONER

Health insurers seek rate increases for 2027

PROVIDENCE – Local health insurers have submitted requested commercial health insurance rate hikes for 2027 for individual, small- and large-group plans, the R.I. Office of the...
DOULA ­SESSION: Rachelle ­Friesen, co-president of the nonprofit Doulas of Rhode Island, speaks to a gathering at Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket as part of the group’s statewide “Meet the Doulas” awareness campaign. 
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Demand for doulas in R.I. rises after insurance change

What a difference a few years have made for doulas in Rhode Island. Doulas provide physical and emotional support to expectant mothers, before, during and...

With tax credits about to end, Rhode Islanders could pay thousands...

As the Dec. 31 end to federal subsidies for federal health care nears, pressure is mounting on insurers, providers, and the nearly 40,000 Rhode...

McKee, Office of Healthy Aging announce special election period for UnitedHealthcare...

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee and the R.I. Office of Healthy Aging recently announced that the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...

Health insurers promise to improve coverage reviews that prompt delays and...

The nation’s major health insurers are promising to scale back and improve a widely despised practice that leads to care delays and complications.  UnitedHealthcare, CVS...

Insurers submit highest rate increase requests to OHIC in more than...

PROVIDENCE – Insurers' rate increase requests for individual, small and large group plans in 2026 were the highest the Office of the Health Commissioner has...

Suspect in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO is charged with murder in...

ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) – After UnitedHealthcare’s CEO was gunned down on a New York sidewalk, police searched for the masked gunman with dogs, drones...

UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot outside a New York City hotel

NEW YORK (AP) – UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed Wednesday morning in what investigators suspect was a targeted shooting outside a Manhattan hotel...
OPEN UP: Dentist Milton J. Liu, right, and dental assistant Lori Beth Adler prepare to examine the teeth of patient Anthony Northup at Wood River Health in Hopkinton. 
COURTESY WOOD RIVER HEALTH

Trip to dentist on Block Island? Boat no longer needed

For years, many Block Island residents without private insurance had to go through a tedious process if they needed a dental checkup. This usually involved...
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