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Neil Steinberg, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation.
No risk, no reward
PROVIDENCE – Three days after Gov. Gina Raimondo released her proposed FY 2021 state budget on Jan. 16, the Rhode Island Foundation released its long-term, 10-year plan for improving health in … more
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Kyle Anderson, the regional director of rehabilitation at Ortho RI.
Creating a continuum of care in orthopedics in RI
WARWICK – A new kind of delivery service model for specialty health care in Rhode Island is rapidly taking shape, focused on orthopedic care, featuring express urgent care where a patient is … more
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A new study published by the New England Journal of Medicine has raised questions about the efficacy of attempting to focus on the patients who need the most care as a way of reducing health costs. Image is of New York Times story posted online about the study.
New study raises questions about focus on biggest users to reduce health costs
PROVIDENCE – The recent publication of “Health Care Hotspotting – A Randomized, Controlled Trial” in the New England Journal of Medicine will disappoint many health care … more
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The Senate Commission to study reimbursement rates for insurance plans in Rhode Island met on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019.
Breaking down the news silos
PART THREEPROVIDENCE – The basic format of the R.I. Senate Special Legislative Commission To Study the Impact of Insurer Payments on Access to Health Care hearings is straightforward: There are … more
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The first Rhode Island baby born to welcome in the new decade at Women and Infants Hospital was Stephania Michelle Escobar Orellana, daughter of Katerin Oviedo Orellana, and Luis Escobar, of Providence, weighing 6 pounds, 5 ounces, their first child.
Facts, nuance, and narrative
PART TWOPROVIDENCE – The efforts being undertaken by the R.I. Senate Special Legislative Commission To Study the Impact of Insurer Payments on Access to Health Care keep unearthing disturbing … more
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The surreal cover artwork, a portrait of Frank Zappa from the 1969 album, "Uncle Meat," by the Mothers of Invention, seems to capture the disturbing evidence presented at the second meeting of the Senate commission studying reimbursement rates on Dec. 17, 2019, that the future of dental care providers in Rhode Island is at the breaking point.
Open wider
PART ONEPROVIDENCE – Money talks and patients walk. My prediction for 2020: the dynamics of who gets what, when and for how much in health care will dominate the political landscape in Rhode … more
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