Rhode Island governor announces health care spending target
Gov. Gina Raimondo this week signed an executive order establishing a 3.2 percent target for health care spending growth in Rhode Island through 2022. Hospital Association of Rhode Island President Teresa Paiva Weed attended the signing. She is a member of the steering committee for the Rhode Island Healthcare Cost Trends Project, which will leverage the state’s existing all-payer claims database to identify cost and utilization drivers, develop an annual health care cost growth target and inform system performance improvements. In November, Delaware Gov. John Carney issued an executive order establishing state health care spending and quality benchmarks.
Related News Articles
Headline
Hospitals provide over $110 billion a year in community benefits, almost nine times the value of their federal tax exemption, according to an AHA advertorial…
Headline
The health care field added 358,000 jobs in June, increasing 2.3% to a seasonally adjusted 15.6 million, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported …
Headline
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.17% in December to a seasonally adjusted 5,297,100 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.…
Headline
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.19% in November to a seasonally adjusted 5,283,200 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported …
Headline
U.S. spending on health care grew 4.6% in 2018, slower than the 5.4% overall growth in the economy but up from 4.2% in 2017, largely due to reinstatement of…
Headline
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.04% in October to a seasonally adjusted 5,270,600 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. That's…