Center Examines PPACA’s Impact on NJ Health Insurance Law in Study Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

In early 2011, the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy began efforts on a seven-month research study, “New Jersey Law Reform in Response to Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act,” in collaboration with the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. Seton Hall Law’s research will address the interplay between the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and State health insurance law, regulation, and practice.

Professor John V. Jacobi, Research Fellow & Lecturer in Law Kate Greenwood, and several law students are currently reviewing the legislative and regulatory changes that the ACA requires and permits New Jersey to make. They will develop a “cross-walk” between current law and law that is fully compliant with the ACA. They will also relate the provisions of the ACA to current New Jersey practice, and describe options available to the State of New Jersey as it undertakes the task of implementing the new Act. Seton Hall and Rutgers researchers will produce interim research briefs and a final paper incorporating legal, economic, and public policy analyses. The study is being administered by the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy and is funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.