After a successful pilot project in Newark — built largely around community health workers who visited people at home to help address medical and social concerns — and nearly a year of planning, New Jersey’s largest health insurer was ready ...

Vanguard Medical Group was one of the more advanced physician groups in the state when it came to telehealth before the COVID-19 pandemic produced a stay-at-home order. The Fairfield-based group, which has more than 55 doctors and advanced pra...

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has announced its plan to offer expanded paid time off for health care workers that volunteer for Gov. Phil Murphy’s “Call to Serve” on the front lines of New Jersey’s fight against COVID-19. The Ne...

By Allison Pries Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is donating $2.35 million worth of protective medical equipment and food to help in the state’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The health insurance company will begin de...

By Anthony Vecchione Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey announced Monday it is waiving pre-authorization and pre-certification for inpatient admissions at in-network acute care hospitals. The change took effect on March 27, and is...

By Kevin Conlin If ever there were an argument for competition, look no further than the generic drug market. According to Health of America research, the average cost-per-script for single-source generic drugs, i.e. drugs with no competiti...

By building a robust payer-provider relationship, payers can better ascertain the right quality measures to mobilize pediatric quality measures in value-based care. If value-based care in pediatric healthcare truly is the future of value-based...

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ) joined 17 other Blue Cross Blue Shield plans across the country to announce a collaborative partnership with Civica to create a new subsidiary dedicated to lowering the cost of selecte...

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and 18 independent and locally-operated BCBS companies are partnering with Civica Rx to lower the cost of generic prescription drugs. The 18 BCBS companies will provide $55 million to help create a Civica...

The African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey has long strived to empower and sustain African American businesses across the state through entrepreneurship and capitalistic initiatives. That mission, coupled with our goal of ensuring equ...

Last fall, in his first public statements as the chairman, CEO and president of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Kevin Conlin played it close the vest. He was thoughtful and deliberate, as is his way. And nothing he told ROI-NJ on th...

In a move that will dramatically change the corporate status and corporate actions of the state’s largest health insurer, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, legislation was introduced Monday that would make it possible for the company ...

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey announced Monday that it has been named the exclusive medical carrier for the state of New Jersey’s public employee health programs, the State Health Benefits Program and the School Employees’ Health B...

Opioid addiction has led to thousands of deaths nationwide, with 68% of the United States’ 70,000 fatal overdoses occurring in 2017 being attributed to a prescription or illicit opioid. Recently, Oxycontin manufacturer Purdue Pharma, agreed to a ...

The Garden's State's largest health network is investing $1 million dollars in a comprehensive strategy to combat vaping among middle school and high school students. "The statistics that are out there now are really only the tip of the iceber...

State officials along with insurance and healthcare providers in New Jersey are joining forces to address the glaring racial disparities in the state’s maternal and infant care. They are part of a unique seven-state coalition focused on reducing ...

In a first-of-its kind partnership that brings together New Jersey’s State Medicaid agency, its largest health insurer and biggest health care system, the Garden State has been selected to become a laboratory for innovating solutions to reverse m...

In a partnership that brings together New Jersey’s State Medicaid agency, its largest health insurer and biggest health care system, the Garden State has been selected to become a laboratory for innovating solutions to reverse maternal and infant...

In the first known partnership of its kind, a major insurer and health system in New Jersey are partnering with the state's Medicaid agency to test innovative solutions to reduce health disparities and maternal and infant mortality rates. Thei...

  Kevin Conlin, President & CEO of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (BCBSNJ) was recently interviewed for New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute's Take Five series.  Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has been a memb...

Horizon Healthcare Services Inc., New Jersey’s largest health insurer, is leveraging near real-time data analytics to identify high-risk members and implement targeted formulary and drug adherence interventions to improve outcomes. Partnering with...

As healthcare continues to change, it is up to the chief transformation officer to keep tabs on the innovations and how they are forging the new landscape of the industry. The role is meant to help reshape the delivery of care.  Divya Paliwal,...

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey saw claims savings of $8,000 per practice per month plus improvements in several quality measures when it implemented a “secret shopper” study that evaluated the care given by its primary care provider...

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ) announced on Tuesday it is distributing free drug disposal packets to 55,000 members. Horizon will also partner with law enforcement and community organizations to distribute an add...

As part of its value-based transformation initiative and ongoing work to proactively collaborate with providers and members, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (HBCBSNJ) developed the Clinical Advisory Council of Nurses. Similar to i...

Julie Shannon Monday, April 29, 2019   The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey was named among 20 organizations by South Jersey Biz Magazine as having "made it their mission to give back to the communities they serve." Read more from So...

Primary care physicians (PCPs) are often among the first to spot behavioral problems in patients. To help make the process of finding the right behavioral health professional more seamless, Horizon BCBSNJ has teamed up with Quartet Health. Through Qu...

Nineteen New Jersey companies received perfect scores in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2019 Corporate Equality Index, used to judge how employers meet the needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community with policies an...

The director for noninfectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rita Noonan, says the first wave of the opioid epidemic was due to over-prescription. “We are literally talking about the public health epidemic of our ...

It’s an epidemic that claimed more than 3,000 lives in New Jersey last year and another 500 in the first three months of this year. And now state and federal officials say it’s time to join forces to combat the public health epidemic of our lifeti...