Health Care Proxies and Advance Directives help Doctors in critical care of patients
The New Jersey Department of Health issued a comprehensive statement concerning triage and the care of COVID-19 patients in different kinds of licensed health care facilities. This is one among many directives issued in the past six weeks. Read the directive here: FinalAllocationPolicy4.11.20v2
As the patient is being treated, many decisions need to be made along the way, often in rapid-fire...
Governor Christie vetoes bill allowing Medicaid payment for end-of-life counselling
Governor Chris Christie has vetoed A-4233/ S-2435 , which means that NJ doctors treating Medicaid can’t get paid for counselling their patients on end of life planning. Perhaps he’s pandering to the absurd claims made in the 2008 Presidential election that by paying doctors to assist their patients to understand the treatment alternatives and choices about foregoing treatment at...