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PROVIDENCE — The McKee administration has now raised its own questions about how much the state can legitimately bill Medicaid for patients at the state-run Eleanor Slater Hospital. The state has not officially suspended billing for federal Medicaid reimbursement, but McKee spokesman Matt Sheaff on Wednesday reported this latest wrinkle in the on-going saga: "As ESH processed Medicaid billing for the months of April, May and June 2020, staff raised questions regarding the eligibility of certain expenses."  "To ensure the accuracy of bills submitted for Medicaid reimbursement,'' Sheaff sai...

The number of Rhode Islanders enrolled in Medicaid has grown by more than 40,000 people since the federal government stopped states from terminating benefits at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the start of this month, there were 332,617 Rhode Islanders receiving public health insurance, up from 292,038 at the end of February 2020, when the coronavirus began spreading in the state, according to the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services. The federal moratorium on Medicaid terminations is scheduled to continue through the end of this year, at which point the state projects M...