Office of Health Insurance Commissioner - Christopher Koller has rejected Blue Cross Blue Shield RI 10.2 % rate hike for direct pay subscribers.Koller has however, agreed to a 7% increase for roughly ...

Now they are going to say, the Obama plan of keeping health record electrically is safe. Reject healthcare reform and stop the abuse it would create.

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OBI stops selling RI home, auto policies Providence Business News PROVIDENCE – OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd. has stopped writing new homeowners and auto insurance policies in Rhode Island as part of a ...

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Enrollment in RIte Care in December, a Medicaid program that provides insurance for parents, pregnant women and children who meet the state's income guidelines, was up 6.7 percent from the previous De...

grant from Verizon, that will improve the hospital's efficiency, increase accuracy of patient records, and initiate health care outreach for uninsured Californians. The two-year grant -- awarded ...

A healthcare benefits panel approved by a General Assembly override of a veto by Governor Carcieri is causing a stir within the Governor's administration, as they claim the override could be unconstit...

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat, said in a statement that the bill would improve the quality of health care, lower the long-term budget deficit and make health insurance available to tens of milli...

"It is absolutely disgraceful for the United States Senate to push through healthcare 'reform' that is filled with increased costs to states, increased taxes on America's small business owners, and la...

Article Reprints Rhode Island regulators have fined a major insurance company $5,000 for allegedly interfering with a driver's right to choose his own garage for repair work. The Department of Busine...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island regulators have fined a major insurance company $5,000 for allegedly interfering with a driver's right to choose his own garage for repair work.

©2009 Google Providence Journal Kennedy dominates health -care reform forum at Brown Providence Journal Samuel H. Havens, a member of the board of directors of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, asked why none of the health -care proposals promote ... and more »

BCBSRI to Give Free Seasonal Flu Shots to Uninsured at RI Free Clinic Providence Business News PROVIDENCE, RI (November 13, 2009) – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) will sponsor two free flu clinics for adult Rhode Islanders who lack ... and more »

Retail clinic chain MinuteClinic plans to move its headquarters from Minneapolis to Woonsocket, R.I., where its parent company CVS Caremark Corp. is based. (CVS)

Health officials are investigating how a surgeon at Rhode Island Hospital mistakenly operated on the wrong part of a patient's hand, the hospital's fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007. Hospital President Timothy Babineau said in a letter that the mistake...

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WASHINGTON - A Rhode Island woman urged senators Tuesday to ease bankruptcy rules for people devastated by medical debt, as she described the pain of losing a child and going broke from his health care bills. The experience of Kerry Burns, of ...

The ugly truth, though, is that the 401(k) is a lousy idea, a financial flop, a rotten repository for our retirement reserves. In the past two years, that has become all too clear. From the end of 2007 to the end of March 2009, ...

No, Arizona does not have any state-wide short term disability program, for any condition including pregnancy and childbirth. There are only 5 states in the U.S. that offer mandatory short term disability: Hawaii, California, Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey.  

That depends upon who is paying the STD or short term disability benefits. Only five states have STD that is paid by the state, and Massachusetts is not one of them. (They are California, Rhode Island, Hawaii, New Jersey and New York.) When the employee is unable to return to work after using all FMLA, he [...]

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Settlement expected to boost primary care in RI Providence Journal Blue Cross has joined other local organizations to collaborate on a program to encourage more medical students to choose primary care as a profession — over ...

The Rhode Island Department of Health is moving forward with plans to create the state's first medical marijuana clinic where patients who use the drug for medicinal purposes can legally purchase it.

He wanted to change the company from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island to United Healthcare of New England. Cicilline says the switch wouldn't have changed employee benefits but would have saved the city six-million-dollars ...

Cicilline had claimed that switching from Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island to United Healthcare of New England would save the city nearly $6 million over three years. "We're very happy" with the decision, said Clarence W. Gough, ...

Providence, R.I. » Waiting in line at the pharmacy to pick up prescriptions, Lawrence Cafero Jr. can't help but feel a bit guilty. Cafero is a state representative in Connecticut and taxpayers subsidize his generous health insurance plan, which requires only a $10 copay for any

Lawmakers in many states enjoy free or heavily subsidized health insurance paid for by tax dollars, even as the recession claims the jobs and health benefits of millions of workers who elected them. T...

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, center, accompanied by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., left, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., talks about the proposed health care insurance overhaul on Wednesday.