ACA Enrollment Needs You
Open enrollment for the ACA Marketplace begins November 1 and runs through December 15. New Jersey residents will have three carriers to choose from: Horizon BCBSNJ, AmeriHealth, and Oscar. The 2018 rates should come out any day now and will be higher than they otherwise would have been if Congress or the Administration had authorized…Read More…
The Relentless School Nurse: Blog on Aunt Bertha
One of the 5 principles of NASN’s Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice is Community/Public Health. Relentless School Nursing calls for knowing our community resources and providing helpful, accurate and effective referrals. How embarrassing is it to refer a family to a resource only to find out that it has shut down, changed their phone…Read More…
Best Care is Best Kept Secret
I recently visited my new physician, Dr. Randi Protter, at R-Health, which provides a new model of care — called Direct Primary Care — that could improve patient outcomes while also reducing costs. The state, seeking ways to reduce costs, began this model for people covered by the State Health Benefits Program (state and local government employees,…Read More…
Take Five with Paul G. Vidal
Paul G. Vidal, PT, DPT, is president of the American Physical Therapy Association of New Jersey, APTANJ. You have said we are experiencing an epidemic of chronic pain. How do you see the connection to the current opioid crisis? Almost nine in 10 Americans suffer from pain at some point in their lives. About 50 million…Read More…
Health care institute hopes program will show if payment reform works
Published on Return on Information New Jersey by Anjalee Khemlani.. Is the much-touted value-based reimbursement model, in which providers get paid for care of a patient rather than per procedure, working? It’s a question the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center is asking the public. CMS has been the driver of the preventative care model,…Read More…
New Jersey scrambling to find more doctors
Published by Michael L. Diamond in the Asbury Park Press. Dr. Jason Nehmad needs help. A primary care doctor, he sees four patients an hour. He takes 10 minutes for lunch. He is paying off more than $200,000 in student loans. And his colleagues are retiring in waves. “It’s getting worse and worse,” said Nehmad,…Read More…
Was that Bipartisan Cooperation on Health Care? Yes, and We Need More
I tuned in to watch the recent senate hearings on the actions Congress should take to stabilize the individual insurance market — and I saw something as rare as the solar eclipse: a thoughtful, bipartisan discussion on health care that focused on solutions, not polemics. Governors and Insurance Commissioners from blue states and red states talked…Read More…
Take Five with Ana Lòpez-DeFede
Ana Lòpez-DeFede, PhD, is Director of the Division of Medicaid Policy Research at the University of South Carolina Institute for Families in Society. Dr. Lopez-DeFede, at a recent Medicaid 2.0 work group, explained how her state uses Medicaid data to improve health quality. Your organization is contracted by South Carolina’s Medicaid program to produce a…Read More…
New Jersey Funds Project to Improve End-Of-Life Care
Published by Lilo H. Stainton on NJ Spotlight. Despite widespread wishes to die at home, research shows Garden State residents are more likely than many Americans to spend parts of their final months in the hospital, receiving costly and questionably necessary treatments that do little to improve their quality of life. To help shift this…Read More…
New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute to Spearhead Catalyst for Payment Reform’s New Jersey Scorecard
Catalyst for Payment Reform has selected New Jersey as one of three states where the progress of payment reform will be measured. The initiative aims to improve health quality and reduce costs. Published on PRWEB. Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR), a non-profit corporation working to improve the quality of health care while also reducing costs,…Read More…