Governor Sherrill’s first budget proposal provides an early look into the administration’s healthcare affordability agenda. Professors Joel Cantor and Derek DeLia examine the agenda and make recommendations.
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Singer (DHA ’27) and Prof. Bhuyan Address Physician Burnout
“New Jersey leaders should start by measuring how much after-hours EHR work physicians are doing and use that data to demand documentation reform from technology vendors and federal regulators.”
U. Professor says Affordable Care Act has not reduced financial burden of cancer treatment
“I think having a good understanding of the insurance plan is always important irrespective of your age group,” Bhuyan said. “A lot of people don’t want to look at it until they are faced with a life threatening severity … We should be more knowledgeable about our insurance production plan for sure and specifically around those important, life-changing events.”
Bhuyan Co-Authors Study on Persistent Financial Burdens for Cancer Survivors
Soumitra Bhuyan, Executive Director of Health Administration Programs and Associate Professor at Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, is the co-author of a new article that evaluates the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on healthcare costs for cancer survivors.
2026 NJBIZ Health Care Power List includes Prof. Joel Cantor
The 2026 NJBIZ Health Care Power List includes Prof. Joel Cantor, the founding director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy and a longtime leader in health policy research.
New college graduates face a tough job market. Here’s why unemployment hits them harder
Many college graduates have some time before they need to figure out their own health insurance coverage. Young adults can typically stay on a parent’s private plan until age 26, said Joel Cantor. Some states even allow dependents to stay on longer than that.
Fines weren’t enough to keep Jersey City hospital open, so lawmakers aim to get tougher
“The idea was to monitor more closely,” Cantor said. “I don’t recall that we had discussions of imposing penalties, but just to have the state poised to be better positioned to predict when hospitals were getting into trouble.”
Grafova and Williams Examine Medical Debt in New Study
In this analytic sample, 4.4 % of households experienced the onset of low or medium medical debt, and 1.2 % experienced the onset of high medical debt between the 2019 and 2020 waves of the PSID.
HMN 2025: What are the promising strategies for providing health care to homeless people
“Health care providers are used to dealing with people who are deeply focused on their health, and that’s not always the case with the unhoused,” Cantor said. “If I don’t have a place to sleep or enough to eat, how can I possibly think about seeing a doctor?”
Still, Cantor said effective collaboration could help organizations stretch limited resources and meet patients where they are.
As he put it, such partnerships are not only necessary, but increasingly essential as “money is going to get tighter everywhere.”
New 2024-2025 Health Administration Program Annual Report
Executive Director Soumitra Bhuyan, PhD, MPH released the Bloustein School’s Health Administration programs 2024-2025 annual report. Dr. Bhuyan highlights the successful launch of the new #DHA program and high enrollments in our #MHA and #HA programs this year.