News & Press
Read Dr. Atul Gawande’s recent article in the New Yorker, featuring the Camden Coalition
The Hot Spotters:Can we lower medical costs by giving the neediest patients better care? Dr. Atul Gawande, The New Yorker (1.24.2011)
If Camden, New Jersey, becomes the first American community to lower its medical costs, it will have a murder to thank. At nine-fifty on a February night in 2001, a twenty-two-year-old black man was shot while driving his Ford Taurus station wagon through a neighborhood on the edge of the Rutgers University campus. Read more …
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Recent Press
“Focus on ‘super users’ saves lives and dollars in New Jersey” The Star Ledger (1.25.2011)
Family doctor Jeffrey Brenner is pioneering a new way to deliver health care in Camden that we are likely to see much more of in the years ahead. He focuses on a small group of “super users” who make frequent hospital visits and absorb an outsized share of medical spending.
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“A better cure for what ails New Jersey” The Star Ledger Editorial (1.25.2011)
One of the most promising experiments in health care reform is taking place today in Camden, the state’s poorest city. A young doctor named Jeffrey Brenner has organized a team that works with the most burdensome patients , who absorb a giant share of our health care spending.
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“NJ Lawmakers advance bill on rewards for preventing, controlling illness among NJ poor” The Star Ledger (1.24.2011)
Declaring the heath care system “hopelessly broken,” lawmakers in Trenton are advancing legislation that would provide financial rewards to doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies for preventing and controlling illnesses — rather than just treating them — in New Jersey’s poorest communities.
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Related News Articles
“Governors get advice for saving on Medicaid” Robert Pear, New York Times (2.3.11)
Fearing wholesale cuts in Medicaid by states with severe budget problems, the Obama administration told governors on Thursday how they could save money by selectively and judiciously reducing benefits, curbing overuse of costly prescription drugs, and reducing fraud.
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Read the full text version of the letter to Governors here.
“Discovering – and lowering – the real costs of health care” Michael E. Porter, Harvard Business Review
The rising costs of health care are a pressing issue in the United States and elsewhere, but we can’t reform the system without better ways of understanding the relevant costs and how to measure them. To achieve that, I’m pursuing a new initiative with my colleague Robert S. Kaplan to bring modern cost accounting to health care delivery.
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“Are high-utilizers the key to lower health care costs?” Family Practice Management Blog (2.4.2011)
In the latest issue of The New Yorker, Atul Gawande tells the story of Jeffrey Brenner, MD, a
family physician in Camden, N.J., whose passion for the last decade has been to identify the
people in his community who use the most medical care and do something to help them. In
May of 2009 Brenner closed his regular practice to focus full time on this effort, which some
refer to as “health care hot-spotting.”
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ACO Pilots for New Jersey — will they ‘fly’? Helen Oscislawski, Legal Health Information Exchange (1.19.2011)
The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute (NJHCQI) brought together several distinguished experts to discuss the development of and implications for the new Accountable Care Organization (ACO) models and rules being established on a federal and state level for Medicare and Medicaid. The focus of the seminar was on exploring what ACOs were (and what they were not), as well as the anticipated CMS rule and pending New Jersey legislation for a Medicaid ACO demonstration project.
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