A Way Forward
On May 28, 2025, Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced a series of health care-related initiatives aimed at providing immediate relief and long-term solutions for Rhode Island’s failing health care system.
These initiatives include:
- filing suit against the three largest Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) in the country to protect Rhode Island consumers from unfair and deceptive conduct that has caused drug prices to skyrocket;
- introducing legislation to immediately raise Medicaid reimbursement rates to 100% of Medicare rates for primary care providers;
- introducing legislation to immediately eliminate nearly 100% of prior authorization requirements for primary care providers;
- introducing legislation authorizing the Attorney General to petition the Superior Court to place a hospital into receivership if the facility becomes financially unstable;
- issuing proposed regulations to require pre-merger notification of certain material corporate transactions involving medical practice groups, including transactions involving private equity firms;
- issuing an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking regarding market oversight of artificial intelligence (AI);
- a collaboration between the Attorney General and the Brown University School of Public Health Center for Advancing Health Policy Through Research (CAHPR) to examine potential policy options for state-based health system reform; and
- planning for a new state health care agency to obtain and analyze healthcare data, and inform innovative and effective governmental health care decision-making.
Below, visit an interactive website that is dedicated as a guide through the Office’s action to address the crisis in Rhode Island’s health care system. This site will be updated to reflect future actions and outcomes.
