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- Explainer: Platinum Versus Gold Health-Insurance Plans for NJ Public Workers
- Bipartisan panel suggests going to less expensive health insurance could save taxpayers $1.4 billion within a few years
- New Jersey Expands Stigma-Free Healthcare for LGBTQ Residents
- Clinics, support groups, hospitals are adopting policies designed to promote equitable and inclusive care
- State Actions Help Keep Lid on Health Insurance Rate Hikes in NJ
- Prices will increase but by far less than for consumers in most other states, as New Jersey is ‘working aggressively’ to counter federal changes to Affordable Care Act
- Cancer Care, Prevention: How New Jersey Measures Up
- New report says NJ does well on cancer screenings and general care, not as well on palliative care and pain medication. But report omits recent state initiatives
- State Expands Addiction Treatment for Prisoners
- Eighty percent of inmates in Garden State were under the influence of drugs when they committed the crime that put them behind bars
- Rutgers Team Invents Wristband that Could Detect Diseases, Enviro Hazards
- Technology analyzes microscopic blood sample, transmits data to doctors, hospitals or patient’s phone
- Booker and Menendez Explain How NJ Is Resisting Federal Healthcare Policies
- Senators and state Health Commissioner outline efforts to stop Trump administration from dismantling ACA and impeding other initiatives
- Behavioral Health Program Expands Care, But Future Funding in Question
- New Jerseyans with mental illnesses and addiction problems have benefited from project to transform their healthcare. But it’s not guaranteed to continue
- Governor Appoints Monitor for Newark’s Troubled University Hospital
- Alarms sound over shortcomings in quality of care and financial soundness. Murphy moves swiftly to tackle problems
- West Nile Virus Has Come Early to NJ This Year — Take Precautions, Officials Warn
- Transmitted by infected mosquitoes, WNV has already been found in 13 counties but no cases of human infection
- State Gives Medicaid Patients More Help to Quit Smoking
- Medicaid members now qualify for smoking cessation medications like nicotine gum, lozenges, skin patches without prior approval
- Tackling Teen Suicides in NJ — and the Online Connection
- Lawmakers propose studying effects of electronic devices, online communication on schoolchildren. In related move, they want kids to be assessed for symptoms of depression
- Healthcare Transportation ‘Disrupters’ Make Big Drive in New Jersey
- New high-tech services pledge to construct easier ways for patients to get to and from medical appointments
- Lawmakers Hope to Reduce Drug Abuse, OD Deaths in Schools
- Can starting drug education in seventh grade and stockpiling naloxone in high schools help turn tide in battle against substance abuse?
- NJ Gives Medicaid Patients with Hepatitis C Earlier Access to Life-Saving Drugs
- Change means severe liver damage might be avoided. Up to now, patients were only covered for treatments after damage was evident
- NJ Concussion Doc Warns Parents: Keep Kids Out of Youth Football
- Other doctors question this caution, while sports advocates argue football remains a path to educational and economic opportunity for some kids
- Murphy Signs Law to Update NJ’s Sorely Outmoded System for Investigating Deaths
- State’s medical examiner operation has been falling apart for years but major reforms are about to begin
- Hospitals Get Good News, Bad News in NJ’s Last-Minute Budget Resolution
- Tens of millions of dollars that had been ‘frozen’ will be quickly distributed to acute-care facilities but hospital leaders alarmed by emergency-room payment reforms
- NJ Hospitals Explore Software to Reduce Addiction, Improve Care
- Computerized tracking tool summarizes patients’ histories, flagging suspect behaviors and speeding response time
- Law Enforcement, Addiction Services Forge New Alliance to Help Drug Offenders
- State Attorney General promotes program that treats addiction as a public health crisis rather than ‘law enforcement issue alone’
- Legislature Set to Advance Contentious Nursing Home Staff-Ratio Bill
- Frontline workers call for more help, but industry fears an “unfunded mandate”
- Changes in State Funding Might Give Hospitals Extra Money — and Take Some Away
- Proposals, which have raced through the Legislature, envision new county-based taxes on procedures and acute care
- Prevention, Risk Reduction Focus of First NJ Spotlight Opioid Roundtable
- State officials, medical professionals agree New Jersey has made a good start by trimming opioid prescriptions, but much more work remains
- Scientists Help ID New Cancer-Causing Agent in Tobacco Smoke
- Organic compounds known as ‘aldehydes’ are primary source of damage to DNA and also suppress its ability to repair that damage
- Murphy to Undo Contentious Christie Makeover of Mental Health, Addiction Services
- Governor expected to shift most DMHAS programs back to the Department of Human Services
- NJ Lawmakers Consider New Taxes on Hospitals to Fund Medicaid, Medical Education
- Aim is to raise investment in care for low-income residents and pump more money into graduate education
- NJ Hospitals Adopt Protocols to Reduce Unnecessary C-Sections
- Cesarean delivery comes with a number of risks for mothers and babies, including blood clots, cardiac complications, asthma and diabetes
- State Launches Tax-Free Savings Program to Help Disabled People
- NJ ABLE gives people with disabilities as way to ‘save for vital day-to-day expenses,’ without imperiling Medicaid coverage, similar programs
- Lawmakers Urge Review of Medicaid Rates for Nursing Home Care in NJ
- Providers say they’re losing more than $400 million a year, struggling to contain costs
- Lawmakers Looking to Find More Dollars for Direct Caregivers
- It’s easy to see why there’s a shortage of direct-support professionals. They’re paid so little they can do better financially working at a fast-food chain
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