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Summer 2025 Issue of

New Jersey Pediatrics

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Join us for a practical session designed to build your confidence in understanding and applying HEDIS metrics in pediatric care. We will explore how HEDIS measures are developed, validated, and updated to reflect evolving standards of quality care. You will learn to interpret core metrics and gain insights into upcoming changes that may impact pediatric practice performance.

FREE for NJAAP Members

After this presentation, attendees will be able to:

• Describe the process for assessing for suicide intent and plan through utilizing the ASQ and C-SSRS assessment tools
• Describe the rationale for safety planning and the evidence supporting its use.
• Identify lethal means counseling strategies for collaborating with families to foster an environment that prioritizes safety

This program will be followed by a Q&A Ask The Expert Session.

*Not a NJAAP member? This webinar is offered at $15.00. If you join NJAAP we will deduct this from your membership price. Contact lreinhardt@naap.org to join today!

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By the end of this course, participants will be able to:



• Describe the role of fluoride varnish in preventing dental caries.
• Identify patients who would benefit from fluoride varnish application, including recognizing risk factors for dental caries.
• Demonstrate proper technique for applying fluoride varnish in accordance with evidence-based guidelines.
• Integrate fluoride varnish application into routine well-child and primary care visits, including documentation and billing considerations.

JOIN US FOR A 60-MINUTE COMPLIMENTARY LIVE WEBINAR WITH Q&A

Topics include:

○ 2024-2025 infant RSV immunization rates and gaps

○ Beyfortus pivot trials and RWE

○ Beyfortus safety & duration of protection

○ ACIP, AAP recommendations related to RSV

○ Operational considerations including in-season and out of season babies

○ Beyfortus Proper Coding

○ National and NJ Beyfortus Coverage Landscape

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Attendees of this session will be able to:

• Identify who has legal authority to consent, and when consent from both parents is needed
• Learn how to verify legal authority and avoid making assumptions that cold lead to HIPAA or consent violations
• Identify red flags when parents attempt to manipulate pediatricians

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AAC for Individuals With Autism: What Physicians Need to Know

By: Joe Novak, EdD, BCBA-D, LBA, CCC-SLP

Physicians, particularly pediatricians, are often the first point of contact for parents concerned about their child’s development, including delays in speech and language. As such, gathering input on developmental milestones is essential to identify children whose communication challenges may reflect an underlying medical or developmental condition. Autistic individuals often present with a range of communication difficulties, including challenges with verbal expression, understanding social cues, interpreting non-literal language, and engaging in reciprocal interactions. And, despite ongoing advances in intervention, many individuals with autism continue to struggle to communicate effectively using vocal speech alone. Research estimates that anywhere from 25% to 50% of individuals with autism do not develop functional vocal speech.

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Never Leave Children Unattended in a Car

As New Jersey enters the height of summer, the Division of Highway Traffic Safety (HTS) and the Department of Children and Families (DCF) are partnering to raise urgent awareness about the dangers of leaving children unattended in vehicles.

Each year, children across the country are severely injured or die from heatstroke after accidentally being left or trapped in vehicles. According to the American Automobile Association of Northeast, child fatalities due to vehicular heatstroke increased by 35% last year, with two of the deaths occurring in New Jersey.

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The Pediatric Pulse is a new quick way to capture real-time data and insights from pediatric practices across NJ. Gathering key information on issues pediatric practices face on an ongoing basis helps identify trends, advocate for improvements in care delivery and payment structures, and effectively communicate with insurance plans. Take the Pulse to help fuel change.

The Pediatric Pulse:

The Impact of PCP Assignment Changes on Patient Care and Practice Billing

We understand that patients assigned to primary care physicians (PCPs) through insurance plans can suddenly change, often causing issues in patient care and practice billing/payments. The information you provide will help advocate for appropriate process enhancements.

Please take the Pulse by Friday, September 5^th. Thank you for your voice!

If you are attending the National AAP Conference this year, please see the SOAPM/PPMA Events Schedule.

The mission of the Practice Management Committee is to provide an open forum for discussing and disseminating practical information on all aspects of the administration of pediatric practice management and advocating for pediatric healthcare providers at all levels. 

Please contact Aditi Doshi at adoshi@njaap.org or Meredith Klein at mklein@njaap.org to join the committee today! Pediatricians, Practice/Office Managers and other staff are welcome!

New Jersey Pediatrics, the official journal of the New Jersey Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics, invites submissions of original research articles, case reports, guideline update briefs, resident voice articles, and any content that would be of interest to pediatric providers.

Please review the submission guidelines (link below or at https://njaap.org/involved/njpeds/) for more information about publication requirements and processes. Send inquires to Felicia Taylor at ftaylor@njaap.org.