Posts Tagged ‘medicaid’
Medicare Savings Program bill will be a win for low income seniors, and Rhode Island – Herb Weiss
Rhode Island may make 17,000 more residents eligible for Medicaid
Read MoreThe “Forgotten Middle” study of income inequity of Black and Hispanic seniors – Herb Weiss
By Herb Weiss, contributing writer on aging issues Millions of Black and Hispanic middle-income older adults will lack the financial resources to pay for senior housing and health care expenses as they age, warns a new report released by NORC at the University of Chicago, commissioned by the Long-Beach, California-based SCAN Foundation, an independent public…
Read MoreHail Mary PR effort puts spotlight on inadequate RI nursing home Medicaid rates – Herb Weiss
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Read MoreReforming Rhode Island government’s human services safety net – Richard Asinof
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI, contributing writer The last televised debate between the Democratic candidates running for Governor in 2022 will occur on Tuesday, Sept. 6, a week before the primary election. But the odds are pretty good that there will be no questions – or answers – about the release of the report by the…
Read MoreA talk with Kristin Sousa, new director of the RI Medicaid office – Richard Asinof
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI Photon courtesy of RI EOHHS, Kristin Sousa, director of the R.I. Medicaid office. Kristin Sousa, the new director of the RI Medicaid office, is, in many ways, the antithesis of the former director, Ben Shaffer. There are many “hot potatoes” being passed around in Gov. Dan McKee’s administration these days, with…
Read MoreNew efforts on Smith Hill to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates – Herb Weiss
By Herb Weiss, contributing writer on aging issues On March 8th, a press conference on Smith Hill put the legislative spotlight on introduced rate setting legislation intended to fix Rhode Island’s long-time problem of paying insufficient reimbursement rates to human-service agencies delivering social, human and clinical services to Medicaid recipients. Over 80 human service providers,…
Read MoreAddressing a failed system – Richard Asinof
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI, contributing writer Photo: Tina Spears, executive director of the Community Provider Network of Rhode Island. An interview with Tina Spears, executive director of the Community Provider Network of Rhode Island As a blizzard descended on the Northeast, the way that we define community and neighborhood has become self-evident, much like the…
Read MoreWhen low Medicaid rates create a break glass emergency – Richard Asinof
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI, contributing writer Photo: Sen. Josh Miller, chair of the special legislative commission evaluating the effectiveness of R.I. EOHHS, presiding over the Nov. 30 meeting. Publisher’s Note: We start at the end of a four part series – see links, below for first 3 parts New information comes to light about the…
Read MoreIt’s time. Staff vaccinations required for nursing homes as 10 RI facilities see new COVID cases – Herb Weiss
By Herb Weiss, contributing writer on aging issues With the COVID-19 Delta variant spiking across the country especially among the unvaccinated, last Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced at an afternoon address at the White House that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will require nursing homes to require all workers to be fully…
Read MoreNursing homes to require all workers be vaccinated – state/fed new rules
The federal HHS program is developing new regulations requiring nursing homes to require that all of their workers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of participating in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. This new policy, announced by an address of President Biden on Wednesday afternoon. The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) also…
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