Big Insurer Unveils Innovative New Alliance with Doctors, Hospitals

September 11, 2015

The OMNIA Health Alliancea partnership between the insurer and seven providers – six hospitals and the state’s largest doctors group – aims to change how healthcare is paid for and delivered.

“It is a very big deal,” said Joel Cantor, director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. “I think it’s an impressive plan. It’s a sharp change in direction from where New Jersey healthcare had been.”

NJSpotlight.com, September 10

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