In 2013, approximately 127,000 New Jersey children went without health insurance. In 2014, that number was down to 102,000, amounting to a decrease of nearly 20 percent. The findings are from a study set to be released this week, according to the report.
For healthcare administrators, these decreases aren’t altogether shocking. “That doesn’t surprise me at all,” said Marta Silverberg, CEO of Long Branch, N.J.-based Monmouth Family Health Center. “We have seen a large increase in patients insured by Medicaid.”
But enrollment in NJ Family Care — the state’s Medicaid program — fell during the latter half of 2015, and the reasoning for it remains unclear, according to the report.
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