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Health insurance regulator: Rhode Island will raise primary-care spending targets and expand transparency efforts
Summary
Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner briefed the committee on rate reviews, the health spending accountability program and plans to increase primary-care funding required by pending regulations and statutes.
Corey King, Rhode Island's health insurance commissioner, told the House Finance subcommittee the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner (OHIC) is expanding transparency and implementing policies aimed at increasing primary-care funding and constraining health spending growth.
Why it matters: Health care spending drives state budgets, employer costs and out-of-pocket expenses. OHIC's work on rate review, the all-payer claims database and the health spending accountability and transparency program informs policy levers…
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