See Horizon Brief Notes below regarding St. Joseph’s Health Hospitals Leaving Their Network

Posted on November 18, 2025

We have been working to reach an agreement with St. Joseph’s Health (St. Joseph’s) hospitals to stay in the Horizon Hospital Network. Unfortunately, St. Joseph’s has decided to terminate its hospitals from our network effective March 1, 2026.

We know that access to St. Joseph’s is important to your clients’ covered employees, and we regret their decision. We continue to work with them to reach a fair and reasonable agreement.

As required by state law, we are sending an email or letter to affected members.

The following hospitals will leave our network on March 1, 2026:

St. Joseph’s University Medical Center
703 Main Street
Paterson, NJ 07503

St. Joseph’s Wayne Medical Center
224 Hamburg Turnpike
Wayne, NJ 07470

In 2025, we successfully negotiated new agreements with many health systems, hospitals and doctor groups that share our goal to make health care more affordable. We have contracts with more than 80,000 health care professionals and hospitals throughout New Jersey, and nearby in New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Members can find other in-network hospitals using the Horizon Blue app or by visiting HorizonBlue.com/doctorfinder.

Members Can Continue to Get In-Network Care

Members may continue to use St. Joseph’s hospitals as participating, in-network hospitals before March 1, 2026. They will continue to pay any applicable copay, deductible and/or coinsurance or other member liability (as shown on their Explanation of Benefits [EOB] statement) for any covered hospital services received from St. Joseph’s before March 1, 2026.

These members are not responsible for additional charges for covered services before March 1, 2026. If they receive a bill in addition to any applicable copay, deductible and/or coinsurance or other member liability for covered hospital services received from St. Joseph’s before March 1, 2026, they should call Member Services at the number on the back of their member ID card.