| RI | H5328 | Engross
50% | Requires food service establishments to add an additional warning to their menus relative to food allergens and impose a civil penalty on those establishments that fail to include the required warnings on its menus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5014 | Engross
50% | Allows for the licensing of surgical assistants to assist doctors in performing surgeries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0952 | Intro
25% | Requires any person who transports a patient by a stretcher or in a supine position in a vehicle to be licensed as an emergency medical services provider through the director of health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-06-08
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S1002 | Intro
25% | Requires health insurance contract plans or policies to provide coverage for the licensed practice of naturopathy as provided in chapter 36.1 of title 5 effective January 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S1001 | Intro
25% | Amends the current law so that all home health care patients are entitled to receive home health care services regardless of their permanent or temporary residence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0096 | Intro
25% | Creates the "Embryo Safety and Storage Act of 2023" and requires the department of health to regulate and license embryo storage facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0794 | Intro
25% | Allows ALFs to provide medical/skilled nursing care services to residents in assisted living setting, as their care needs change, rather than requiring transition to a skilled nursing facility when full-time skilled services are required for the resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5076 | Engross
50% | Allows the state to become a member of the physical therapist licensure compact adopted by twenty-five (25) states in order to facilitate the interstate practice of physical therapy with the goal of improving public access to physical therapy service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5555 | Engross
50% | Adds a new section which sets forth conditions for pharmacists to prescribe tobacco cessation drug therapies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5349 | Engross
50% | Amends the conditions upon which a nurse would be exempt from certain licensing requirements to include eligibility to practice before taking and receiving results of the NCLEX exam.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S1000 | Intro
25% | Requires health insurance commissioner/Medicaid director convene a working group to develop models for reforming payment for healthcare insurers based on advanced value-based payment with annual reports to general assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5494 | Engross
50% | Amends the licensing statute to allow a graduate of a board approved physical therapy school to be reinstated upon a failed examination upon the filing and registering for a second examination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | H5284 | Engross
50% | Expands the rights of physician assistants with regard to their practice and prohibits non-compete clauses that exceed five years with regard to the purchase and sale of a practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0798 | Intro
25% | Increases eligibility for the three (3) federal Medicare Savings Programs and eliminates the asset test for these programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0796 | Intro
25% | Amends the current law so that a health insurer would not require a physician, to participate in "capitation," or any other "alternative payment model" that creates a financial incentive for a physician to limit medically necessary care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0726 | Intro
25% | Limits the copayment or coinsurance requirement on specialty drugs to one hundred fifty dollars ($150) for a thirty (30)-day supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0288 | Intro
25% | Senate Resolution Respectfully Requesting That The United States Senate Stop Privatization Of Medicare (respectfully Requesting That The United States Senate Stop Privatization Of Medicare)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0470 | Intro
25% | Annually increases the rate of physicians’ reimbursement for each in-network health care service that are reimbursed below the average reimbursement rates set by Connecticut and Massachusetts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0293 | Intro
25% | Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductibles for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for the services of a primary care physician or osteopath.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0285 | Intro
25% | Deletes the power and duty of the health insurance commissioner to guard the solvency of health insurers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0572 | Intro
25% | Establishes a universal, comprehensive, affordable single-payer health care insurance program and helps control health care costs, which would be referred to as, "the Rhode Island Comprehensive Health Insurance Program" (RICHIP).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0294 | Intro
25% | Requires insurance carriers, nonprofit hospital service plans, nonprofit medical service corporations and HMOs to cover costs of breast ultrasounds and/or MRI breast exams for person receiving notice of dense breast tissue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0099 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Wholesale Prescription Drug Importation Program for the importation of wholesale prescription drugs from Canada to provide savings to Rhode Island consumers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0581 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the executive office of health and human services from entering into manage care organization (MCO) contracts that permit managed care organizations to contract with pharmacy benefit managers (PBM).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0584 | Intro
25% | Provides a procedure requiring that health care facilities maintain a list with all standard charges for all facility items.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0874 | Intro
25% | Requires the attorney general to contract and work with a third-party auditor to analyze the practices of pharmacy benefit managers doing business in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0573 | Intro
25% | Requires prescription drug manufacturers to file a detailed, updated list of each pharmaceutical sales representative engaged by the manufacturer and to pay an annual fee for each name on list.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0585 | Intro
25% | Provides for the prescribing, dispensing and the administering human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0104 | Intro
25% | Repeals health services council and expands the health services and amends several provisions relative to the review process of the hospital conversion act pertaining to maintenance of services and required disclosures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0582 | Intro
25% | Regulates the marketing of prescription drug manufacturers using direct-to-consumer marketing strategies including coupons, discount cards and similar offers, to provide information about lower cost alternatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-09
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0564 | Intro
25% | Adopts the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact and would establish a joint public agency known as the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Compact commission to administer the provisions of the compact between the states.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0291 | Intro
25% | Adopts a counseling compact for the interstate practice of licensed professional counselors by providing for the mutual recognition of other member state licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0580 | Intro
25% | Allows the state to become a member of the physical therapist licensure compact adopted by twenty-five (25) states in order to facilitate the interstate practice of physical therapy with the goal of improving public access to physical therapy service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0278 | Intro
25% | Adopts the model compact for the physician assistant's licensure compact in Rhode Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0105 | Intro
25% | State websites to comply with WCAG 2.1 standards by July 1, 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0875 | Intro
25% | Creates a secondary path to acquire an optician’s license through an apprenticeship program requiring four thousand one hundred (4,100) hours in not less than two (2) years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0577 | Intro
25% | Amends the licensing statute to allow a graduate of a board approved physical therapy school to be reinstated upon a failed examination upon the filing and registering for a second or third examination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0792 | Intro
25% | Repeals the provision that requires new applicants for employment under this section to pay the expense for their background checks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0279 | Intro
25% | Expands the rights of physician assistants with regard to their practice and prohibits non-compete clauses that exceed five years with regard to the purchase and sale of a practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0574 | Intro
25% | Allows an out-of-state health care practitioner to provide telehealth services to a patient located in this state if the services are consistent with the practitioner's scope of practice and state and federal professional standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0284 | Intro
25% | Amends the conditions upon which a nurse would be exempt from certain licensing requirements to include eligibility to practice before taking and receiving results of the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0956 | Intro
25% | Amends the law on nursing home minimum staffing requirements in order that any penalty incurred in calendar year 2022 would be abated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0872 | Intro
25% | Provides that the lieutenant governor serve as the chairperson of the long-term care coordinating council and provides that a quorum of the council consist of twelve (12) members of the council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0109 | Intro
25% | Requires the auditor general to oversee an audit of Medicaid programs administered by managed care organizations and submit a report of such findings within six (6) months to the general assembly and EOHHS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0108 | Intro
25% | Requires EOHHS working with the auditor general to develop a plan within two (2) years of the passage of this act to transition to a fee-for-service state-run Medicaid program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0578 | Intro
25% | Establishes, encourages and supports the establishment of family councils in managed residential communities providing assisted living services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
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| RI | S0106 | Intro
25% | Regulates PBMs policies and practices relating to accurate costs and pricing reporting, restricts discriminatory practices and establishes consumer protections and enforcement of penalties for violations by the office of the attorney general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0292 | Intro
25% | Adds a new section which sets forth conditions for pharmacists to prescribe tobacco cessation drug therapies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0566 | Intro
25% | Establishes a process whereby large drug manufacturers, may be penalized for prescription drug price increases where there is no, or inadequate, new evidence to support the price increase.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| RI | S0280 | Intro
25% | Caps the total amount that a covered person is required to pay for a covered prescription asthma inhaler to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per thirty (30) day supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
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