The first in a long series of steps toward healthcare reform was taken yesterday, when a bill that will introduce sweeping changes to the way insurance is sold in New Jersey was voted out of an Assembly committee…
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2012 is the year that the first major components of the federal Affordable Care Act will be put in place nationwide. The top priority, at least in New Jersey, is to develop a health insurance exchange — a virtual marketplace that will let individuals and…
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Christ Hospital in Jersey City is the latest New Jersey hospital to seek a merger with a larger, financially stronger system, looking to survive the new normal for healthcare, in which government, employers, and health insurance companies are trying to…
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The news that Dr. David Shulkin, president of Morristown Medical Center, is launching a doctor-owned primary care practice that could eventually number hundreds of physicians was greeted yesterday as evidence that the changes sweeping U.S. healthcare…
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New Jersey wants to remake its Medicaid program to improve healthcare and save money, goals applauded by many in the medical community. But the state was counting on a $107 million refund from the federal government to help its efforts…
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Common wisdom in the healthcare industry: emergency room visits represent the biggest cost to hospitals. Then why is Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Hamilton mounting a marketing campaign to pull patients into its ER?
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Federal health care reform has had a sizable impact on New Jersey’s health coverage for public workers and is now expected to save the state nearly $100 million in 2012. That means the state, which brokers health care for 850,000 employees and dependents…
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As insurance premiums increase and small business revenue slides, more people are finding themselves without medical coverage in New Jersey. This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released a survey showing a 9 percent increase nationally in annual premiums…
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