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Blue Cross companions with N.J. docs, hospitals on incentives to deliver down prices

September 14, 2015

Well being care prices in New Jersey are among the many nation’s highest, with longer hospital stays and a few high quality of care points.  “This can be one of the vital modifications to N.J. well being care in a few years,” stated Joel Cantor, director of the Rutgers College Middle for State Well being Coverage. “That is the most important well being insurer making an attempt to actually transfer the system.”

Suffield Times, September 10

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