Final Days of the 2016-2017 Legislative Session
SURPRISE COVERAGE/OON BILLING BILL STALLS
NJ MEDICAL SCRIBES AS PMP DELEGATES
NJPMP DATA TO BE SHARED WITH EDIE
ED EXEMPTION TO CHECK THE PMP PRESERVED – MANDATE DELAYED
New Jersey has a new Governor. Governor Phil Murphy was sworn into office with Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver at the War Memorial in Trenton today, January 16, 2018. The Executive and Legislative Branches are now all majority held by democrats.
NJ-ACEP continues to represent the interests of emergency medicine and work with other specialist societies through the Access to Care Coalition and actively oppose the Out of Network Legislation (S-1285), sponsored by Senator Vitale. Trenton is in the middle of a fierce Budget battle with a July 1 deadline and the Out of Network legislation has become tangled in this year's budget and other politically charged issues, once again, including Governor Christie and Senator Vitale's proposal to take $300 Million in Horizon's surplus for opioid addiction treatment (among other reforms for transparency within Horizon's organizational structure).
We learned late Friday night that S-1285, the OON Transparency/Disclosure/Arbitration legislation, would be added to the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee for Monday without public notice and NJACEP leadership reached out to members of the Committee over the weekend, as did NJ-ACEP's lobbyist and the Coalition in advance of the hearing. S-3299, the OON Transparency/ Disclosure-only legislation sponsored by Senators Sarlo (D) and Oroho (R) and supported by NJ-ACEP and the Coalition was also scheduled for the same hearing on Monday. Putting both these bills on the committee agenda at the same time was a compromise by the sponsors and Senate leadership. S-3299 addresses transparency and disclosure without setting prices or dispute resolution.
S-3299 was unanimously approved by the Committee Monday with support from the Coalition, individual specialty societies, and NJHA. And, although 5 Republicans and Chairman Sarlo (D) abstained on the vote for S-1285, the balance of the democrats, some expressing reservations, supported S-1285 and it was approved by the Committee. NJHA and the physician community all opposed S-1285. NJHA had previously supported this measure and their Board last week withdrew its support.
• NJPMP’s Interstate Data Sharing now includes: PA, MA, NH, ME and WV.
• Expands patient history searches to two years of patient’s prescription records.
• Automatically converts dosages of commonly-prescribed opioids of differing potency, such as codeine, fentanyl, and oxycodone, into a standard value known as “morphine milligram equivalents” (MME).
OPIOID PRESCRIBING AND RESOURCES
The State has created a webpage with all the information you need on the new opioid prescribing laws, as well as links to key resources including a sample one-page pain management agreement and FAQs on the law.
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Thank you to Dr. Jenice Forde-Baker who testified during the Senate Health Committee hearing on the ED PMP exemption bill on Monday, May 14. She did a great job explaining the need for ED exemption and answered the questions posed. NJ-ACEP continues to fight this bill. Click READ MORE to view her testimony.
NEW JERSEY CHAPTER, AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT OPIATE PRESCRIBING GUIDELINES
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Our first meeting regarding women leadership in emergency medicine was a great success!
Doctors and medical students from all over the state joined our board meeting and then participated in a session where we talked about "Networking tips". We then had a general networking event followed by our annual Director Dinner -the speaker was incredible and thought provoking - Dr. Brenner spoke about "Building a New Model of Care For the Most Complex Patients."
We have a few exciting upcoming events - Our next board meeting on March 2 at 9:30 am in Hamilton Township, NJ. We will have a similar post-meeting session regarding "Negotiating Tips", starting around 12:30 pm.
At this meeting, we will also select one attending AND one resident physician to receive FREE registration to ACEP's annual Leadership and Advocacy Conference being held March 12-15 in Washington, DC.
If you plan to attend the March 2nd event, please RSVP to Lauren Myers at [email protected] to allow us to accommodate accordingly.
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A Special Thanks to our Gold Supporters of the NJ-ACEP 2020 Virtual Scientific Assembly held on September 30, 2020
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