New Jersey news and information

Apparently the word is out. The discerning expectant Canada goose won't hatch her goslings just anywhere anymore. Only the hospital will do. Seems two facilities have had parts of their employee parking lots turned into fowl maternity wards this spring.
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A for-profit company that owns three hospitals in New Jersey unveiled a new identity as an integrated health system with plans to offer a Medicaid plan and sell insurance on the state exchange about to launch under the healthcare reform law.
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Technology is going to radically change visits to the doctor in the years ahead. Some pilot programs—including several in New Jersey—use special computers that allow physicians in remote locations to take vital signs, have real-time conversations with patients and potentially improve...
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A for-profit company that owns three hospitals in New Jersey said that it has formed a health system and is planning to offer a Medicaid plan and sell insurance on the state exchange about to launch under the healthcare reform law.
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Peter Nguyen was a promising medical student when his school learned that he had tested positive for the hepatitis B virus. He said he was blackballed by school administrators and forced to halt his studies.
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NEW YORK—Amid upheaval in Brooklyn's hospital industry, a study released last week captures the health needs of residents in some of the borough's poorer neighborhoods who suffer from high rates of chronic illness. Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Brownsville and Crown Heights residents...
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A northern New Jersey doctor was sentenced Friday to nine years in state prison after he admitted to hiring a hit man to kill his lover and a former business partner, authorities said.
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Cooper University Health Care in Camden, N.J., plans to take a 20% stake in AmeriHealth New Jersey and develop an accountable care model with the health insurer.
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A cardiologist with offices in New York City and New Jersey has admitted taking part in a scheme that subjected thousands of patients to unnecessary tests and treatment and resulted in $19 million in bogus bills, the largest case of healthcare fraud ever by a practitioner in either state,...
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In Florida, one wellness program that offered smokers a financial incentive to get help to quit drew just two participants in five years. And in Pennsylvania, patients in a cash lottery were eligible for prizes when they took medication as scheduled. Patients reported a sharp drop—to a mean...
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