{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://cicilline.house.gov/press-release/ri-delegation-applauds-major-health-care-grant", "RI Delegation Applauds Major Health Care Grant", "2014-12-17", "2014", "2014-12", "Democrat", "House", "RI", "David Cicilline", "C001084", "cicilline.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "State Wins up to $20 Million in CMS Funding to Improve Delivery of Health Care\n\u00a0\nWashington, D.C.\u00a0\u2013 Today U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline applauded an award worth up to $20 million for Rhode Island from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement and test the\u00a0state\u2019s Health Care Innovation Plan.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nThe funding comes as part of CMS\u2019s State Innovation Models (SIM) initiative.\u00a0 Created as part of the Affordable Care Act, SIM grants encourage states to generate health care payment and service delivery models that promote better quality care at lower cost for beneficiaries of federal programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). \u00a0\n\u00a0\nRhode Island was among the states previously selected for the \u201cdesigning\u201d phase of the SIM initiative, where recipients prepared a comprehensive\u00a0Health Care Innovation Plan for reforminghealth care payment and delivery.\u00a0 Rhode Island is now among eleven states to receive the second round of SIM funding, to implement its plan across the state\u2019s health care system.\u00a0 Rhode Island and CMS will now work together over the next four years to align health care quality measures, make better use of health information technology and information exchanges, and evaluate health care innovation efforts in the state.\n\u00a0\n\u201cRhode Island health care leaders have worked hard on reforms that improve the quality of care and can lower costs for Rhode Island patients, and this award shows their work is paying off.\u00a0 Not only will this funding improve our health care system here in Rhode Island, it will ultimately help us lower health care costs that burden our economy.\u00a0 We congratulate Lt. Governor Roberts, Rhode Island\u2019s Executive Office of Health and Human Services, and everyone who worked on these important reforms and look forward to seeing them implemented,\u201d said the Rhode Island congressional delegation.\n\u00a0\nRhode Island has been leading the way in several areas of health care reform. \u00a0The Rhode Island Quality Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on improving health care through health care information technology, has created a nationally recognized health information exchange called CurrentCare, which links all Rhode Island hospitals and many health care providers around the state to better coordinate patient care. \u00a0The state\u2019s Chronic Care Sustainability Initiative has established a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) for Rhode Island patients; PCMHs help ensure that everyone in the health care delivery system \u2013 from doctors and nurses to front desk staff and home care agencies \u2013 work together when providing care. \u00a0Rhode Island\u2019s\u00a0Quality Improvement Organization, Healthcentric Advisors, has been repeatedly recognized as one of the top performers in the country, and has received a contract to help all six New England states improve the care delivered to residents with Medicare.\u00a0 Rhode Island is also home to one of the top-performing health insurance marketplaces in the country, HealthSource RI, an organization that has helped thousands of Rhode Islanders purchase quality, affordable health insurance.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://cicilline.house.gov/press-release/ri-delegation-applauds-major-health-care-grant"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7009209841489792, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}