Hospital Service Plan of NJ (Blue Cross / Blue Shield)

File — Multiple Containers

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Drawer (c. 1942 unless otherwise stated): "Medical-Surgical Plan of NJ Schedule of Benefits", brochure April 1943, brochure "Information for Employed Groups", brochure "Information for Participating Physicians", brochure Participating Physicians July 1942, brochure "Hospital Service Plan of NJ", "Jersey Blue Cross Hospital Plan Reports Record Gain", "Military Service of Volunteers and Draftees", single contract, family contract, 10 years of progress, annual report 2002.

File room: Annual report 1938-1941, 1943, 1955, 1963, 1973, 1977, 1988-1989, schedule of maximum plan payments (1974 and 1976), increased payments for benefits (1942), statement (1943), State Regulations on on Hospitals and Health Care: The NJ Story (1973), Schedule of payments (1982), Medical Surgical Plan Par Doctors and Babs (Sept 1973), Medical Surgigcal Plan Doctors (July 1973)

Dates

1800 - 2025

Creator

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (Organization)

Biographical / Historical

In 1932, Associated Hospitals provided the first multi-hospital service plan for NJ. It went statewide in 1936 as the Hospital Service Plan. In 1942 the Medical-Surgical Plan of New Jersey was incorporated. In 1960, legislation was passed to allow the State Employees Health Insurance Commission to purchase from Blue Cross, Blue Shield, which was enacted in 1964. Blue Cross of NJ and Blue Shield of NJ merged in 1986, and in 1998 became Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey.