Opinion: Primary care needs time. N.J.’s payment system should recognize that

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A 2024 analysis by KFF, a national nonprofit health policy organization, found that New Jersey’s fee-for-service Medicaid primary care fees averaged about 48% of Medicare fees, compared with 66% nationally.

That gap is not an accounting detail. It matters most in practices that care for large numbers of Medicaid patients.

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