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PROVIDENCE – The McKee administration has rescinded the $15-billion Medicaid contracts awarded last month in response to protests by two of the major players in the Rhode Island health insurance ...
The Executive Office of Health and Human Services is a cabinet-level agency in Rhode Island. [1] The current EOHHS Secretary is Womazetta Jones. EOHHS was created by the Rhode Island General Assembly in 2006 and is codified in Title 42 Chapter 7.2 of the R.I. General Laws. The agency serves as an umbrella organization for Rhode Island's ...
States are required to recover long-term-care-related (LTCR) Medicaid expenses from people who are 55 or older and have received Medicaid from the recipients' probate estates. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] States also have the option to recover costs of all other Medicaid services for people who are 55 or older and have a separate option to extend the recovery ...
Gov. Dan McKee will give his 2025 State of the State address on Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Rhode Island State House. (Michael Salerno/Rhode Island Current) With the 2025 legislative session ...
It provided the first Medicaid long-term services and supports benefit specifically for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. [ 3 ] In 2010, Rosa's Law replaced "mental retardation" in law with "intellectual disability", renaming Intermediate Care Facilities for Mental Retardation (ICF/MR) to Intermediate Care Facilities for ...
Wilson, 75, is one of the roughly 350,000 Rhode Islanders on Medicaid with limited options for dental health care providers. Many offices don't accept the coverage because of its low reimbursement ...
Many of our dentists are nearing retirement age, and Rhode Island’s “dentist-to-population” ratio is already below the national average (55 dentists per 100,000 people in Rhode Island ...
As initially passed, the ACA was designed to provide universal health care in the U.S.: those with employer-sponsored health insurance would keep their plans, those with middle-income and lacking employer-sponsored health insurance could purchase subsidized insurance via newly established health insurance marketplaces, and those with low-income would be covered by the expansion of Medicaid.