News Report | May 4, 2020
New Jersey Creates Regional Health Hubs To Replace Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations
The New Jersey Medicaid program, NJFamilyCare, is creating Regional Health Hubs (RHHs) to replace its Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Demonstration Project. The four existing ACOs—the Healthy Greater Newark ACO; the Trenton Health Team; the Camden Coalition of Health Care Providers; and the Health Coalition of Passaic County—are designated as RHHs. The state’s fiscal year 2020 budget formally recognized them, and continued a $1.5 million appropriation.
The RHHs differ from the ACOs in that the RHHs will not directly coordinate care for consumers. The ACO Demonstration Project was authorized by a law passed in 2011 that directed . . .