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- NJ Lawmakers Seek to Lift Federal Limits on Homegrown Doctors
- Caps restrict the number of medical residencies that hospitals can offer; Menendez, Pascrell and Gottheimer would change that
- Hudson County Hospitals Facing New Criticism Over Financial Practices
- As dozens of layoffs loom at CarePoint Health, state’s largest healthcare union questions whether stricter state monitoring could have prevented them
- NJ Not Alone in Switch to State-Based Health Insurance Exchange
- Four other states, including Pennsylvania, are moving to take over ACA operation from federal government
- Groundbreaking Project in Paterson Ties Health to Housing
- St. Joseph’s Health partners with state to provide affordable housing for frequent users of emergency department
- State Appoints Dental Director, First in Three Decades
- Dr. Darwin K. Hayes, who led large training program in the Bronx, will develop oral-health plan for the state
- Shortage of Home Care Nurses on Horizon
- Home healthcare agencies say Medicaid reimbursements have not kept pace and, as a result, it’s tough to recruit private duty nurses
- State Ramps Up Training in Latest Treatment for Opioid Addiction
- Hundreds of additional healthcare professionals are being schooled in Medication Assisted Treatment, considered the gold standard of care
- Murphy Signs Bills Protecting Benefits for First Responders
- Safeguards put in place for those who volunteered at Ground Zero and became sick, and for those claiming workers’ compensation
- Heart-Attack Patients Face Worse Odds at NJ Hospitals with Lower ‘Care’ Scores
- Rutgers University researchers find 3 percent of heart attack patients return to low-scoring hospitals due to a new heart attack within 30 days
- Murphy Recommends Middle Ground for Home Care Wage Measure
- Issuing a conditional veto, governor urges new hourly rate of $18 rather than the $20 legislators had wanted
- Murphy Signs Law Greatly Expanding NJ’s Medical Marijuana Program
- Overhaul allows more professionals to prescribe medical pot, in higher amounts, and with fewer restrictions
- NJ First State to Let Paramedics Offer Prime Opioid-Withdrawal Drug
- Emergency responders will be able to carry buprenorphine, which has been shown to reduce the symptoms of opioid withdrawal
- Murphy Makes NJ 12th State with Own Health Insurance Exchange
- New Jersey is the first to make the change since Obamacare was established
- State Fires Back on Claims Alleging Dangerous Conditions at Greystone
- Attorney general contends lawsuit fails to prove that state’s actions caused harm to plaintiffs
- Lawmakers Want Emergency Funds for Struggling Hospital
- Sen. Richard Codey spearheads effort to stave off possible closure of East Orange General Hospital with $7.5M grant for behavioral health program
- Gov Taps Respected Nurse and Hospital Exec to Lead Health Department
- Judith Persichilli is choice to replace Dr. Shereef Elnahal, who departs next month for the top job at Newark’s University Hospital
- Fears that NJ Won’t Make Deadline to Create Own Health Exchange by 2020
- Concerns that necessary legislation will not be posted for a vote before Legislature’s summer recess
- Next Items on the Marijuana Agenda in New Jersey
- At NJ Spotlight roundtable, experts explore expansion of medical marijuana program and what’s possible for adult-use after a measure for legalizing it failed
- Lawmakers Seek Higher Pay for Personal Care, Full Funding in Doubt
- No one argues that personal-care workers don’t rate a pay hike, but giving them a boost will add $131 million to the state’s Medicaid expenses over next 12 months
- How Two Unrelated Hospital Measures Have Stalled in Trenton
- One bill concerns angioplasties, the other the rights of patients transferring to out-of-state facilities. Is a Camden hospital the connection?
- Compromise Reached to Expand NJ’s Medical Marijuana Law
- Governor worked with legislative leaders to reach a deal that will eliminate tax, shift oversight and add delivery options
- Hike in HMO Fee Engineered to Boost Funding of Hospital Charity Care
- Measure would raise state tax on what consumers are charged for certain health policies, but companies would be prohibited from passing on extra cost
- ‘Regional Health Hubs’ Aim to Improve Services for Medicaid Patients
- NJ healthcare coalitions have had success focusing on complex health and social needs of high-demand Medicaid patients. Now they have a new roadmap for an even more integrated approach
- Lawsuit Over Greystone Safety, Treatment Raises Questions About Reforms
- Current and former patients, supported by staff, allege hospital administrators and state health officials have allowed dangerous conditions to continue at psychiatric hospital
- Flesh-eating bacterium is on the rise in Delaware Bay, doctors warn
- Cooper University Health Care has treated five patients over the last two summers who were infected, a sharp increase over previous years; one of the patients died
- Menendez, Others Try to Stop Surprise Out-of-Network Medical Bills
- Advocates say loopholes in New Jersey law would be closed if bipartisan federal measure succeeds
- NJ Opioid Tax Details Emerge, But Plan Lacks Legislative Sponsor
- Governor’s proposal would enable the state to charge a fee of up to $5 million on companies that manufacture opiates in New Jersey
- NJ Lawmakers Seeking to Expand Access to STD Treatment
- Legislation to allow for medication to be prescribed for the sexual partner of someone diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease is up for Assembly vote today
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