(WJAR) — Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha is set to announce initiatives to address the state’s health care crisis on Wednesday.
The closure of Anchor Medical Associates is leaving thousands of Rhode Islanders looking for primary care.
The Attorney General’s announcement promises both immediate and long-term solutions to problems plaguing Rhode Island’s health care system.
It was this time last month Governor Dan McKee released his own multi-step plan to address Rhode Island’s primary care system…a plan the attorney general was not impressed by.
It included:
- $5 million in grants for primary care practices to help recruit and retain doctors.
- Accelerating a Medicaid rate review for primary care providers requiring commercial insurers to increase reimbursement funding
- And expanding the primary care student loan forgiveness program.
This as 25,000 patients were told they would be losing their principal care providers with the closure of Anchor Medical by the end of June.
The announcement is at 10:30 a.m. at the Attorney General’s office in Providence.