The company that won a $24 million contract to operate the Rhode Island health benefits exchange's customer service center is an affiliate of a company that is selling plans on the exchange, but state officials say there are built-in protections to prevent conflicts of interests.

Health insurers in Rhode Island are seeking double-digit increases in the premiums that individuals and small businesses will pay for coverage next year.

Rhode Island's largest medical practice of primary care doctors is joining UnitedHealthcare in an effort to provide better coordinated and less costly health care, the two companies announced Tuesday.

The director of the new state health insurance exchange being created as part of the federal health overhaul says that it is on track to begin enrolling Rhode Islanders this fall and that it should offer patients a larger role, additional choice and more affordability in their health care.

A judge hearing a challenge by public-sector unions and retirees to Rhode Island's landmark pension system overhaul on Tuesday ordered the parties into federal mediation a little over a week after the state asked her to dismiss the lawsuit.

Unemployment in Rhode Island edged down slightly in July, but the state continues to shed jobs and post the country's second-highest jobless rate, according to new data released Friday.

A lawyer representing city retirees in Rhode Island is expected to tell a judge they have approved a deal freezing automatic pension hikes and restructuring health benefits.

A lawyer representing city retirees in Providence, R.I., is expected to tell a judge they have approved a deal freezing automatic pension hikes and restructuring health benefits.