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2025 Rhode Island Snapshot
The Healthcare Affordability Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states. The categories examined in this resource explore a variety of policy options that have previously appeared in the Scorecard, as well as additional policies that impact health care affordability. Policies were selected […]
Read MoreRhode Island Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner cites Rhode Island CHESS data in 2026 Health Care Spending and Quality Annual Report
In their 2026 Annual Report on Health Care Spending and Quality in Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner used Altarum Healthcare Value Hub’s 2024 CHESS data for Rhode Island to illustrate the challenges residents face affording health care. The report establishes this claim by citing CHESS findings that 8 in […]
Read MoreRhode Island Passes Laws Targeting Medical Debt
Rhode Island has passed two laws designed to mitigate the impact of medical debt, reports insideARM. The first, S0169, prohibits credit reporting agencies from reporting an individual’s medical debt and prohibits liens against an individual’s home because of medical debt, and prohibits garnishment of wages for medical debt. The second, S0172, caps interest rates on medical debt.
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A survey of more than 1,000 Rhode Island adults, conducted from February 19 to March 27, 2024,found that: Altarum’s Consumer Healthcare Experience State Survey (CHESS) is designed to elicit respondents’ unbiased views on a wide range of health system issues, including confidence using the health system, financial burden and views on fixes that might be […]
Read MoreRhode Island
The Health Care Value Hub’s 2026 Health Care Affordability State Policy Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders with a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states. The Snapshot explores policies impacting health care affordability across four domains: Policies were selected based on whether they have the potential to impact […]
Read MoreRhode Island Snapshot 2024
The 2024 Healthcare Affordability Snapshot provides legislators, consumer advocates, regulators and other stakeholders a tool to compare their state’s health policies across other states. The categories examined in this resource explore a variety of policy options that have previously appeared in the Scorecard, as well as additional policies that impact health care affordability. Policies were […]
Read MoreRhode Island Launces Medical Debt Initiative
An average of 5.2 percent of Rhode Island adults report having medical debt in a given year, reports the Boston Globe. To address this issue, the state is launching a medical debt cancellation program, purchasing debt from providers and collectors to relieve residents with income at or below 400% of the federal poverty level or with […]
Read MoreSome Good News: Only 0.2% of Rhode Island Children are Uninsured
Rhode Island’s uninsured rate remains one of the lowest in the nation, reports What’s Up Newport. Rhode Island reports only 2.2% of its residents and 0.2% of children under 17 are uninsured, maintaining one of the lowest uninsured rates nationally. Young adults (18-25) continue to improve coverage, contributing to a 12-year trend. However, underinsurance remains […]
Read MoreRhode Island Survey Respondents Struggle to Afford High Health Care Costs; Worry about Affording Health Care in the Future; Support Government Action Across Party Lines
Key Findings A survey of more than 1,000 Rhode Island adults, conducted from February 19 to March 27, 2024,found that: A Range of Health Care Affordability Burdens Like many Americans, Rhode Island adults experience hardship due to high health care costs. Overall,nearly seven out of ten (69%) respondents experienced one or more of the following […]
Read MoreRhode Island Survey Respondents Worried about High Drug Costs; Support a Range of Government Solutions
According to a survey of more than 1,000 Rhode Island adults, conducted from February 10 to March 27,2024, respondents are concerned about prescription drug costs and express a strong desire forpolicymakers to enact solutions. More than half (53%) of survey respondents reported being somewhat or very worried about affordingthe cost of prescription drugs. Worry varied […]
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