Take Five with Toby Stark
Toby Stark is a Past President of the New Jersey Association of Health Underwriters (NJAHU), a consumer advocacy organization of professionals and brokers in the health insurance industry. What is the biggest challenge for a small or medium size business in purchasing health insurance? The cost is the challenge, especially for small companies of between…Read More…
No Agreement on How to Keep Lid on Health Insurance Costs in NJ
Published by NJ Spotlight. More people in Garden State have access to insurance because of Affordable Care Act but there’s no consensus on how to protect the benefits. New Jersey has made strides in expanding and strengthening health insurance coverage in recent years but protecting those gains and addressing the rising cost of care long-term…Read More…
Exclusive Look at Rising Health Care Spending in New Jersey
Not long ago, I was reading Niall Brennan’s testimony to a U.S. Senate committee. You may recall that Niall was our keynote speaker at last year’s Winter Conference, and we called him a “truth teller” for his powerful insight and data on rising health care costs. Niall, President and CEO of the Health Care Cost…Read More…
ROI-NJ Reveals First-Ever Health Care Influencers List
Published by ROI-NJ on October 8th. It’s time for our first ROI Influencers Health Care list. It’s just like the old power list we used to put together … well, except that everything has changed. We’re at a new publication — and the health care world we cover appears to be changing just as dramatically. A new administration…Read More…
Scoring Payment Reform in the Garden State
Two numbers struck me after reading Catalyst for Payment Reform’s New Jersey Scorecard: 80 and 20. In our state’s commercial market, the share of total dollars paid to specialists (outpatient and inpatient) is 80 percent compared with just 20 percent to primary care providers. The national figures are only slightly better: 75 and 25 percent….Read More…
Take Five with Michellene Davis, Esq.
Michellene Davis, Esq., Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, RWJBarnabas Health. Davis leads social impact and community investment across the system and talked to us about transforming the overall health of communities. Your program works to improve the health of residents beyond the hospital walls. Why did you make that a priority? As…Read More…
NJ Upends How Doctors Get Paid, So Why Do Vaccination, C-section Rates Lag?
Published on Asbury Park Press.com. New Jersey doctors and hospitals are increasingly paid based on quality, but patients aren’t getting the care they need to prevent illnesses and bigger bills down the road, a report released Tuesday said. Despite incentives to promote good health, the report by Catalyst for Payment Reform found New Jersey has fewer vaccinations, more C-section deliveries and…Read More…
52% of Commercial Payments to Doctors and Hospitals in the Garden State Now Tied to Value
New scorecard finds overwhelming majority of payments are still based on fee-for-service PRINCETON, NJ – September 25, 2018 – Over half of the health care payments (52%) paid to doctors and hospitals in New Jersey by the private sector contain incentives to improve the cost and quality of care patients receive. However, a closer examination of these value-oriented…Read More…
Healthy People Need a Healthy Community
Published by U.S. 1 Princeton Info. Good doctors and hospitals alone are not what keep people well and help them recover when they are ill. “So much about health and what it takes to be healthy is more than the medical system and straight medical care,” says Linda Schwimmer, president and CEO of NJ Healthcare…Read More…
Legistation Aims to Improve, Update Medicaid’s Eligibility Process
Published by NJ Spotlight New Jersey lawmakers are pushing the state to modernize and improve its system for determining who is eligible to receive Medicaid and getting people enrolled, a process that has undergone some upgrades but is still criticized as burdensome and inefficient for both patients and administrators. The Senate Budget Committee will review…Read More…