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In a moment of male whimsy, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse banged the gavel to open his keynote address at the May 28 health care summit at the R.I. Statehouse on Tuesday, May 28. Sen. Whitehouse began his address by lamenting the fact that the merger between Lifespan and Care New England did not go through. The Senator then urged the state to go all in and apply for the AHEAD program which would transition the state into a value-based, annualized payment system of care. The oversized role that Optum plays in the delivery of Medicaid managed care was not discussed.
The Medicaid contracting mess
PROVIDENCE – For the second time in three years, the McKee Administration has had to slam on the brakes on its effort to award the Medicaid Manage Care Organization [MCO] contract to private … more
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The signage at 375 Wampanoag Trail reflects the changing brand of Lifespan. The photo, taken on Tuesday, Oct. 1, two weeks before the changeover to Brown Medicine becomes official, reflects the way that Lifespan corporate structure is changing.
The changing corporate brand of Lifespan
EAST PROVIDENCE – The news this week about the latest corporate developments with Lifespan, the state’s largest health care delivery system, was that it had signed a new PILOT [payment in … more
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Ashley Laferrire is the pharmacy manager at Blackstone Valley Community Health Care at 39 East Avenue in Pawtucket.
On the job with Ashley LaFerriere, pharmacist
PAWTUCKET – Too much of the news reporting about our disrupted health care delivery system tends to be about asking questions directed at the CEOs and honchos in charge of the decision-making, … more
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Eilsabeth McGowan, MD, director of the NICU Neonatal Follow-Up Program at Women & Infants Hospital, joins the celebration and birthday party for all those children who were in the NICU in 2020, with Bluey, a character from the animated series for preschool children.
What happens when a birthday party is delayed for 4 years?
PROVIDENCE – Some 50 years after the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, or NICU, at Women & Infants Hospital and its Follow-Up Clinic first opened its doors in 1974, some 200 guests attended a … more
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The elevator doors at South County Hospital, where Ortho RI maintains a wing at the facility, offer up a marketing message to patients, asking: "Are you a grateful patient?"
Who is grateful?
WAKEFIELD – The continuum of health care in Rhode Island is fraying around the edges and unraveling, it seems, forcing a dramatic shift in the definition of what “community” health … more
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The impromptu memorial on Olney Street in Providence to Miya Brophy-Baermann, who was murdered in a drive-by shooting in 2021.
Regulating health care
PROVIDENCE – Last week, the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner approved a series of rate increases for commercial insurance plans, despite opposition from Attorney General Peter … more
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