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A portrait of the reporter afer neck surgery at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton, Mass., a Steward Health Care facility, three days post surgery.
The metrics of debt
  PART Two   PROVIDENCE – Last week, ConvergenceRI received not one, not two, but three “Notice of Deadlines for Filing Proofs of Claim.”   … more
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R.I. Attorney General Peter Neronha talks at length in his office about the health care choices facing Rhode Island during a one-on-one interview with ConvergenceRI/.
‘Let them eat invoices’
PART One PROVIDENCE – The headline for this story is borrowed from reporter Maureen ‘Moe” Tkacik, writing in The American Prospect , who connected the dots between the … more
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Martha Wofford, president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of RI, on a visit to Your Blue Store in East Providence, with the store's receptionist, Melanie.
Changing the narrative on future of health care
PART Two PROVIDENCE – When it comes to health care, one of the biggest problems, it seems, is it is not just about figuring out a way to control the high costs but controlling the … more
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Lifespan and Brown University have inked a new partnership that will provide the largest health care system and private employer with a new brand: “Brown Health.” The move involves a flow of money from Brown to the delivery of care system formerly known as Lifespan, and then, after seven years, the flow of money will be reversed, with Brown Health investing in the Brown medical school.
Brown and Lifespan: ‘We belong together.’
PROVIDENCE – Lifespan and Brown University threw a big media splash party at Hasbro Children’s Hospital early Thursday morning, June 20, to announce the rebranding of the state’s … more
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Attorney General Peter Neronha won his lawsuit against Prospect, the owners of Roger Williams Medical Center and our Lady of Fatima hospitals, with R.I. Superior Court Judge Brian Stern ordering Prospect to pay $17 million in the next 10 days to cover outstanding medical bills. A regulatory decision is expected in the next few days regarding the proposed sale of the two hospitals to the Centurion Foundation.
Will the health system crash and burn?
PROVIDENCE – The opening paragraph of Gravity’s Rainbow , a 1972 novel by Thomas Pynchon, begins: “A screaming comes across the sky . It has happened before, but there is nothing to … more
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In a moment of male whimsy, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse banged the gavel to open his keynote address at the health care summit at the R.I. Statehouse on Tuesday, May 28. Sen. Whitehouse began his address by lamenting the fact that the merger between Lifespan and Care New England did not go through. The Senator then urged the state to go all in and apply for the AHEAD program which would transition the state into a value-based, annualized payment system of care.
Bang the gavel slowly
PROVIDENCE – Many of the titans of the health care industry in Rhode Island gathered on Tuesday morning, May 28, in the House of Representatives chambers for what was billed as a … more
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