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Pennsylvanians Could Lose Access To Weight Loss Drugs Amid Medicaid Changes
16 Jun 2025 15:04 GMT
… lower drug prices without impacting Medicaid recipients' ability to access the drugs … Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Virginia and Wisconsin.
A number … by prescribing requirements. These medications are some of the most …
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Untangling the Nursing Home Knot in Rhode Island
29 May 2025 15:57 GMT
… a strong anti-psychotic drug, to keep him there, … as giving the wrong medication, has caused or could … for drugs, short hospital stays and rehabilitation; Medicaid for … themselves.”
Responding to a Rhode Island Monthly inquiry, Administrator Lindsey …
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Attorney General Neronha to discuss the health care crisis in Rhode Island
28 May 2025 23:55 GMT
… , including legislative action to increase Medicaid primary care rates, legislation which … deceptively increased costs of prescription drugs and harmed local businesses.
… ’s surprising and unfortunate that Rhode Island's attorney general would …
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Podcast: At Rhode Map Live, a closer look at Rhode Island's health care crisis
28 May 2025 22:47 GMT
… said. The current Medicaid rate in Rhode Island is 37 percent of … drugs, and take a cut of ever-increasing drug … to safe and effective medications.”
Proposed legislation and regulations … policy recommendations to improve Rhode Island’s health care system. …
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Neronha backing legislation to keep physicians in Rhode Island
28 May 2025 22:03 GMT
… would increase the state’s Medicaid reimbursements in order to … levels.
A study showed Rhode Island’s doctors were overworked and … $40 billion on their prescription drug costs. Our members pay, … per 30-day supply of medication.
The attorney general’s …
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Washington state will receive up to $105.6 million from national settlement with Purdue Pharma
16 Jun 2025 23:15 GMT
… for decades, fueling the largest drug crisis in the nation’s … , Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee … Office also prosecutes elder abuse, Medicaid fraud, and handles sexually violent …
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Challenges Faced by Medicaid Managed Care Coordinators Working With Members With Substance Use Disorder
07 Jun 2025 01:07 GMT
… treatment, increasing access to medication for SUD, increasing reimbursement … 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Center … for medications for opioid use disorder in Medicaid managed … -case studies in Maryland, Rhode Island, and Vermont. J Subst …
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Local woman ready to compete for Miss Rhode Island crown
27 May 2025 21:03 GMT
… called the “Defending Affordable Prescription Drug Costs Act.”
The Health Care … Rhode Island’s commercial reimbursement rates more competitive with Massachusetts and Rhode Island; and
· Medicaid … trying to control where these drugs can be prescribed.
“For …
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Your Paycheck, Your Data, Your Kids’ Phones: Big Bills Advance on Smith Hill
16 Jun 2025 18:57 GMT
… . A revised version of the Rhode Island Noncompetition Agreement Act would make … prevent Medicaid from requiring prior authorization for certain anticonvulsant and antipsychotic medications …
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Medicaid cuts could push more kids into unpaid family caregiving roles
30 May 2025 09:06 GMT
… state officials eye federal Medicaid funding cuts that could … money that went toward her medication and family needs.
But at … served almost 5% of all Medicaid participants, costing about $ … ill, elderly, or disabled.
Rhode Island's education department now …