Recent Publications

NJ Family Health Survey

The New Jersey Family Health Survey (NJFHS) was designed to provide population-based estimates of health care coverage, access, use, and other health topics important for New Jersey policy formulation and evaluation in the coming years. It was funded by the Robert Wood Foundation. Below are links to a series of recent findings from the NJFHS:

Facts & Findings: Differences among
New Jersey Adults using Private Doctors, Clinics, and with no Usual Source of Care
(October 2011)

Facts & Findings: New Jersey Children without Dental Services in 2001 and 2009
(September 2011)

Health, Coverage, and Access to Care of
New Jersey Immigrants: Findings from the New Jersey Family Health Survey
(June 2011)

Facts & Findings: Emergency Department Use by New Jersey Residents in 2009
(June 2011)

The 2009 New Jersey Family Health Survey Methods Report
(October 2010)
Additional Publications
For a complete listing of our publications
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Recent Presentations

The Future of Health Reform:
The Challenges Ahead
presentation by Frank J. Thompson,
presentation at the
Newark City Hall Council Chambers
Newark, NJ, April 12, 2012

Health Reform in New Jersey
presentation by Dorothy Gaboda,
presentation at the
CHIPRA Statewide Coalition Meeting
Princeton, NJ, April 5, 2012
CSHP News Archive

CSHP Awarded Grant from the
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Rutgers Center for State Health Policy was recently awarded $3,000,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct a controlled evaluation of the impact of changes in the food and physical activity (PA) environments on childhood obesity and related behaviors in five New Jersey cities. The analysis will evaluate the impact of exposure to these changes on a comprehensive set of outcomes including behaviors relevant to food consumption and PA as well as weight status.

CSHP Awarded Grant from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for Strategic Communications and Analysis

Rutgers Center for State Health Policy was recently awarded $3,000,000 to extend the Center’s leadership in its well established areas of expertise including access to care, health insurance coverage, long-term care, health system performance improvement, and health care workforce. The grant will also support the enhancement of the Center’s communications with New Jersey constituencies, including a redesign of
CSHP’s website, in addition to responsive, quick turn-around analyses for state agencies and legislature.

CSHP Awarded Grant from the
New Jersey Department of
Banking and Insurance

The Center was recently awarded $340,000 from the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance to host three additional consumer forums around the state, providing the opportunity for consumer and advocacy groups, as well as other invited stakeholders, to express their views on New Jersey’s premium rate review process. CSHP will also conduct a feasibility study for an All Payers Data Center (APDC) to be established New Jersey.

CSHP Awarded Grant from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Support Activities that will Inform New Jersey’s Efforts to Implement the
Affordable Care Act

The Center was recently awarded a $160,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support three primary activities that will inform New Jersey’s efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act. Those activities include a 1) financial analysis of a Basic Health Plan, 2) a data brief on physician network adequacy for vulnerable populations, and 3) a policy brief on Essential Health Benefits.

CSHP Awarded Grant from the
The Nicholson Foundation

Rutgers Center for State Health Policy was recently awarded $200,000 from The Nicholson Foundation to aid in the development of safety net accountable care organizations in low-income communities across New Jersey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Planning for Health Insurance Exchanges under the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) establishes health insurance exchanges that beginning in 2014 will organize and facilitate the purchase of health insurance for individuals, families, and small businesses. Today, states are considering a multitude of design options for developing exchanges, including whether to defer responsibility for creating them to the federal government.

Below are links to the first five in a series of policy reports completed by the Center for State Health Policy and its collaborators at Seton Hall University School of Law and prepared at the request of New Jersey’s Interagency Working Group on the ACA. These reports, which examine critical exchange design issues, were funded by the Department of Banking & Insurance under a federal exchange planning grant.

New Jersey Health Insurance Exchange Planning
CSHP Policy Reports

In addition, below are links to four volumes in a series of reports by the Center which provide estimates of the impact of the ACA on health insurance eligibility and enrollment in the state, and summarize stakeholder views about the design of an exchange in New Jersey.

CSHP and Seton Hall colleagues are also conducting additional analyses relevant to New Jersey’s implementation of the coverage provisions of the ACA, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Click on the title for the first in this series of these reports entitled "Health Insurance Exchanges: Governance Issues for New Jersey". In addition, in Fall 2011, the Center conducted another multi-stakeholder group forum that examined the exchange governance issues that were outlined in Professor Jacobi’s paper. For a summary of proceedings of that discussion click "Stakeholder Forum to Discuss Governance Options for a New Jersey Health Insurance Exchange".

Finally, the following is an array of resources from other sources describing the rules and requirements for establishing a health insurance exchange under the ACA.

 General Information About Exchanges
 Basic Exchange Definitions and Overall Background
 Key Implementation Issues for States
 Exchanges in the News
 State-Focused Organizations
 National Academy of State Health Policy
 National Governors Association
 State Coverage Initiatives
 State Health Access Data Assistance Center
 Foundations, Think Tanks and Universities
 Center for Studying Health System Change
 Commonwealth Fund
 George Washington University Health Reform GPS
 Kaiser Family Foundation
 National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI)
 Consumer Focus
 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
 Families USA
 Employer Focus
 U.S. Chamber of Commerce
CSHP Mission and Role

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Rutgers Center for State Health Policy informs, supports, and stimulates sound and creative state health policy in New Jersey and around the nation. CSHP provides impartial policy analysis, research, training, facilitation and consultation on important state health policy issues. Established in 1999 with substantial funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Center is a research unit within the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Affiliated Initiatives
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Go to the Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education Site

Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national program, directed by the Center for State Health Policy. This national initiative supports evaluations of interventions that expand teaching capacity or promote faculty recruitment and retention in schools of nursing. Michael Yedidia, M.P.H., Ph.D., Research Professor at the Center, serves as the Director for this initiative. To learn about current grantees, program activities, and resources related to the nurse faculty shortage, please click on the logo above.
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Go to New Jersey Health Initiatives


New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI), a statewide grant making program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, supports innovative approaches to resolve health and health care needs in New Jersey. CSHP partners with NJHI on state policy and program evaluation issues.
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Go to the Rutgers Research Data Center Initiative

Under the 2008-2009 Academic Excellence Fund, the Rutgers RDC initiative offers a competitive call for Seed Grant Proposals. Up to five seed grants will be awarded to Rutgers investigators for innovative research projects using demographic, economic, or health data from the New York Census Research Data Center (NYCRDC).
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