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RI Health Benefits Exchange Progress

WEBPROVIDENCE – On Wednesday, January 9, the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC) will release “Rhode Island’s Health Benefit Exchange: …

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Rhode Island State Budget in Transition: Four Key Issues for FY …

WEBRepresenting 37.6 percent of total general revenue spending in the FY 2024 budget, health and human services is the single largest and fastest-growing component …

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RIPEC Analyzes the Governor's FY 2024 Budget and the …

WEBPolicymakers should focus on the health and human services delivery system since spending demands in this area likely will present the most challenging issue for the FY 2025 budget. Inflationary …

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Rhode Island’s FY 2023 Enacted Budget and Fiscal Outlook

WEBGeneral revenue spending for health and human services has grown from $1.46 billion in FY 2019 to $1.90 billion in FY 2023—an increase of 29.7 percent. In its …

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Key Questions Remain in Proposal to Shore Up Flagging RIte Share

WEBThrough the RIte Share program, the state covers out-of-pocket expenses on employer-sponsored health insurance for Medicaid-eligible employees and their families. …

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RIPEC Policy Brief: Adopting a State-Based Individual Shared

WEBToday, RIPEC released a Policy Brief that considers whether adopting a state-based individual shared responsibility payment (SRP, or individual health …

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RIPEC hosted a public affairs forum on Medicaid service delivery …

WEBRIPEC hosted a forum on Medicaid service delivery and payment reform, sponsored by CVS Caremark, featuring presentations by national and local experts on …

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RIPEC Policy Brief

WEBAdding to this sense of instability, two of the five health plans in the state left in 1999, while two other plans stopped accepting RIte Care enrollees.7 In response, Governor Almond …

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HealthSource RI: Status Updates November 2013

WEBand state-level health benefit exchange challenges and progress. These health benefit exchanges were intended to give individuals and small businesses a specific …

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Medicaid Expansion in Rhode Island

WEBPROVIDENCE – On Monday, April 30, the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC) will release comments on the state’s decision to expand Medicaid to …

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HealthSource Rhode Island: Status Updates and Upcoming …

WEB2 “Cooperative Agreement to Support Establishment of the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Exchanges,” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for …

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RHODE ISLAND STATE BUDGET

WEBHealth and Human Services 9 K-12 Education 13 Transportation 18 Affordable Housing 21 IV. Conclusion 27. Page 3 of 29 I. Introduction Rhode Island’s state budget stands at a …

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Federal Health Care Reform Implementation and its Impact on …

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Rhode Island’s State Pension System

WEBEmployee benefits, such as health care and pensions, are one of the most significant drivers of these costs. In the Governor’s proposed FY 2011 budget, personnel …

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State and Local Government Pensions and Other Post …

WEBRetirement and health benefit costs also represent one of the fastest growing components of municipal expenditures (excluding education aid) and …

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Rhode Island’s Safety Net Project

WEBSpending on low-income families has shifted from non-health to health programs, such as Medicaid. In Rhode Island, of the growth in spending for social …

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Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance Programs

WEB3 R.I. Department of Health, COVID-19 Disease Data, accessed June 1, 2020; New York Times, “Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count,” accessed June 1, 2020. …

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Implementation, Design of SHOP will Determine Success

WEBPROVIDENCE – On Wednesday, March 27, the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC) will release comments on the state’s implementation of the Small Business …

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Interim Report of the Medicaid Study Group

WEBper member average Medicaid cost for children with special health care needs was $10,535, and for the elderly $24,165. Given this information, it should not be surprising …

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RIPEC Releases Study on Public and Private Sector Compensation …

WEBIn addition, the report finds that benefits play a larger role in public sector compensation when compared to the private sector – largely driven by health care and …

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Rhode Island’s FY 2023 Enacted Budget and Fiscal Outlook

WEBexpenditures for a broad range of health and human services programs, primarily through provider rate increases. General revenue spending for the category of health and human …

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