Spring Events Provide Valuable, Actionable Information
We are honored that Acting Commissioner of Health, Kaitlan Baston, M.D., sat down with us for a Take Five to share her priorities and thoughts on the pressing health issues facing our state. I urge you all to read Dr. Baston’s Take Five below. I also want to share the upcoming events we have planned…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Kaitlan Baston, MD, MSc, DFASAM
Prior to becoming New Jersey’s Acting Health Commissioner, you created and led the Cooper Center for Healing, an integrated pain, addiction, and behavioral health center that is part of Cooper University Health Care. How will that experience inform your leadership of the Department of Health? First and foremost, the experience as a leader working…Read More…
NEW JERSEY PRIMARY CARE REPORT HAS NATIONAL IMPLICATIONS
BY CHRISTOPHER CHENEY | FEBRUARY 21, 2024 The report, which was published by the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, was authored by more than a dozen experts. KEY TAKEAWAYS New Jersey has a shortage of primary care physicians. According to the American Board of Family Medicine, New Jersey and Connecticut have the lowest concentration of…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Andrea Martinez-Mejia
Andrea Martinez-Mejia is the new executive director of the Greater Newark Health Care Coalition, one of the original Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations and now a Regional Health Hub. The Coalition has worked closely with the Quality Institute for many years. What is your vision for the future of the organization? Being the Coalition’s new Executive…Read More…
The Next Generation of Advocates
Last Friday I taught a class on health care policy to the third-year medical students at a New Jersey medical school. I started by asking the class what each of them has in common with the people pictured below and what I also have in common with these people. All eight studied medicine like the students…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Erin Henderson Moore
Erin Henderson Moore is the President & CEO of Fidelis Care NJ. You have a long history working in Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs), most recently in Washington, D.C. What prompted your interest in managed care? My interest in managed care has been profoundly shaped by my professional experiences and my desire to make…Read More…
Hearing and Heeding the Call to Action on Primary Care
In my last blog post, we shared with you our new report Primary Care in New Jersey: Findings and Recommendations to Support Advanced Primary Care. The report is a blueprint for what needs to change in payments, quality measures, and other practice supports to enable team-based, comprehensive primary care to expand in our state. I…Read More…
Renewed push to raise NJ’s Medicaid reimbursement rates
LILO H. STAINTON, HEALTH CARE WRITER | FEBRUARY 7, 2024 | HEALTH CARE New report outlines how to improve the state’s primary care system After two decades of caring for Medicaid patients, Dr. Aijuan Wang, a pediatrician in Edison, has learned to get creative. She’s found extra funds to cover the cost of vaccines for kids without…Read More…