1+ hour, 35+ min ago   (1248+ words) Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha is urging state regulators to reject two insurers’ proposed increases to premiums for individual health plans in 2027. After a July administrative hearing by the state’s Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner, Neronha’s office formally…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (666+ words) Governor Maura Healey’s effort to crack down on medical debt reporting has drawn resistance from debt collectors and some health care providers who say the regulatory scheme could compromise the accuracy of credit reports and create financial struggles for smaller…...

4+ week, 16+ hour ago   (1192+ words) Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity firm that pulled $800 million out of the doomed Steward Health Care system, reached a financial settlement Thursday with the contractors, suppliers, and other creditors who went unpaid as the hospital chain collapsed. However, while…...

4+ week, 19+ hour ago   (434+ words) State officials announced the rollout of new tap-enabled chip cards for recipients of public benefits, including the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as part of a means of tackling ongoing benefits fraud. The rollout makes Massachusetts the fourth state in…...

1+ mon, 4+ hour ago   (1085+ words) Dr. Michael Jellinek has worked at Massachusetts General Hospital for 50 years. A prominent child psychiatrist who went into hospital administration, he rose to become president of Newton Wellesley Hospital and then chief clinical officer of MGH’s corporate parent, Partners HealthCare,…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (610+ words) Nearly 700,000 Bay Staters will still see double-digit premium increases next year, even after state insurance regulators managed to trim down rates across seven carriers and rejected the sharpest proposed spike of almost 26 percent. The Division of Insurance posted finalized rates…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (506+ words) An increasing number of adults are slogging through jobs they don’t like solely because they don’t want to lose their health insurance. This phenomenon — known as “job lock” — has existed in the US workforce for decades. The worry of losing…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (271+ words) Five New England states sued the federal government on Monday to block work requirements for Medicaid enrollees that are expected to cost hundreds of thousands of people in Massachusetts their health insurance. Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont are…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (645+ words) MassHealth officials knew some 300,000 residents could lose coverage under tough new Trump administration requirements. But it’s worse than they initially thought. Program officials recently learned that up to another 110,000 people — parents, children, elderly adults, and people with disabilities — will have…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (570+ words) Rhode Island has long been a national leader in expanding access to affordable health care. With the General Assembly’s passage of a state budget that includes a $19 million investment in the Individual Market Affordability Program, our state has taken an…...