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Mar 11, 2015

Countdown to the NJBIZ Best 50 Women in Business event A look back at the Class of 2007

NJBIZ is celebrating the 10th anniversary of our Best 50 Women in Business event with a countdown to this year's ceremony, to be held Monday, March 23, at The Palace at Somerset Park.

Mar 11, 2015

University Hospital bolsters heart failure patients’ care as part of incentive program

University Hospital in Newark wants to improve the care of heart failure patients — and avoid their readmission to the hospital — through a team approach aimed at helping them make a smooth transition back home once they've been discharged.

Mar 11, 2015

Bringing out-of-network costs into the light

There's the case of the out-of-network cardiologist who performed a pulmonary stress test on a patient, then billed Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey $12,500. For a procedure that typically costs the insurer about $90.

Mar 11, 2015

Sweeney ‘Co-pays are to keep people from utilizing health care’

Under a health care pilot program for public employees proposed last month by Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford), co-payments, out-of-pocket costs and deductibles when visiting primary care doctors would be a thing of a past.

Mar 11, 2015

State Supreme Court strips COAH of affordable housing oversight after ‘long period of uncertainty’

The state Supreme Court has opted to take over regulation of affordable housing policy, taking it out of the hands of the Chris Christie administration following years of controversy and uncertainty over how towns should determine their obligations for low- and moderate-income residents.

Mar 11, 2015

The center of it all In Holmdel, Bell Works project aims to be a curator of knowledge

Flanked by renderings and an aerial map of the Bell Labs campus, Ralph Zucker sat in a conference room at the historic building as he outlined his plans for transforming it into a mixed-use, urban-style destination unlike anything you'd find elsewhere in suburbia. Fittingly, the space won't be a conference room for much longer.

Mar 10, 2015

Updated Almost final tally for Obamacare 254,316 N.J. residents

The federal government reported Tuesday that 254,316 New Jerseyans have signed up for 2015 health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act through Feb. 22. That is well above the 162,000 who got covered in 2014, the first year of Obamacare.

Mar 10, 2015

Senate panel advances bill to allow Tesla sales model in N.J.

The Senate Commerce Committee voted Monday to advance a bill that would allow zero-emission vehicle manufacturers to directly buy from or sell to consumers and effectively permit American electric carmaker Tesla, which uses a direct-sales business model, to continue operating in New Jersey.

Mar 10, 2015

Two N.J. colleges rank among best for undergraduate science research

With the current emphasis on the STEM subjects — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — it may be heartening to see two New Jersey universities listed among the nation's top science research schools.

Mar 10, 2015

Countdown to the NJBIZ Best 50 Women in Business event A look back at the Class of 2006

NJBIZ is celebrating the 10th anniversary of our Best 50 Women in Business event with a countdown to this year's ceremony, to be held Monday, March 23, at The Palace at Somerset Park.

Mar 10, 2015

Vitals makes changes at the top, including hiring new CEO

Lyndhurst-based Vitals, which creates online tools that enable consumers to comparison-shop by cost and quality and for their medical care, said Heyward Donigan, former chief executive of ValueOptions, joined the company Monday as CEO.

Mar 10, 2015

Verisk paying 2.8B for U.K. data analytics company

Jersey City-based data analytics company Verisk Analytics Inc. has agreed to pay $2.8 billion for U.K.-based analytics firm Wood Mackenzie, the two announced Tuesday.