Atlantic Health inks partnership with Garner Health to improve health care affordability and transparency
PR contact: Luke Margolis
973-829-4665EmailPartnership will help patients access high quality care at lower costs
MORRISTOWN, NJ – MAY 19, 2026 – Atlantic Health is partnering with Garner Health Technology, Inc. on an innovative offering that improves affordability and timely access to high quality care by providing patients and employers with powerful analytics and insights to find a doctor and receive high-quality care at lower costs.
Garner leverages one of the nation’s most robust medical data sets – covering over 60 billion medical records from 320 million patients – to identify doctors who follow the latest research, avoid unnecessary procedures, and help patients get healthy faster. When employees of enrolled companies use the database to find and receive care from a Garner identified Top Provider, the employer helps to cover the patient’s out-of-pocket costs (deductibles and co-pays).
Through this partnership, Garner will help employees at participating employers more easily find and access high-performing physicians at Atlantic Health, and Atlantic Health will use Garner's data to inform its quality improvement work. Garner's algorithm remains independent, ensuring employees can find the highest-quality care at an affordable cost. Together, the partnership expands patient access to great doctors while helping employers manage rising healthcare costs.
“Atlantic Health is committed to providing better outcomes at a lower cost,” said Saad Ehtisham, President and CEO, Atlantic Health. “As leaders in value based care through our accountable care organizations, exciting partnerships – like the one we are announcing today with Garner – demonstrate that we are challenging ourselves to lead the nation in bending the cost curve for patients and their families.”
“High-quality care and lower costs should go hand in hand,” said Nick Reber, CEO of Garner Health. “Atlantic Health shares our commitment to aligning incentives around better outcomes for patients. Together we’re giving employers and their employees a powerful new way to access trusted physicians, improve the quality of care, and reduce unnecessary health care spending.”
As US companies grapple with the rising cost of providing health benefits, this partnership represents a unique commitment from organizations that span the health care ecosystem to develop solutions that improve quality while reducing the total cost of care. This is one of many ways that Atlantic has diversified its offerings in the delivery of care - individuals or employers interested in learning more should visit the Atlantic Health website.
About Garner Health
Garner Health is a health technology company on a mission to transform the healthcare economy and deliver high-quality and affordable care for all. Garner uses one of the nation’s most robust medical datasets – covering over 60 billion medical records from 320 million patients – and over 550 proprietary clinical metrics to identify the best doctors in the nation. Garner then creates meaningful financial incentives for patients to see these providers. The result: employees pay on average 80% less out-of-pocket to see the best doctors, while employers see an average 12% reduction in total healthcare spend in the first year alone. Among Garner’s more than 700 clients and partners are some of the largest employers, health plans and providers in the country. For more information, visit www.garnerhealth.com.
About Atlantic Health
Atlantic Health is at the forefront of medicine, setting standards for quality health care in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the New York metropolitan area. Powered by a workforce of 25,000 team members and more than 5,667 affiliated physicians dedicated to building healthier communities, Atlantic Health serves more than half of the state of New Jersey including 14 counties and 7.5 million people.
The not-for-profit system offers more than 550 sites of care, including its eight hospitals: Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, NJ, Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center in Summit, NJ, Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center in Newton, NJ, Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center in Pompton Plains, NJ, Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center in Hackettstown, NJ, Atlantic Health Goryeb Children’s Hospital in Morristown, NJ, Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute in Madison, NJ and Atlantic Health CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, NJ.
The system includes Atlantic Medical Group, part of a physician enterprise that makes up one of the largest multispecialty practices in New Jersey with almost 2,000 physicians and advance practice providers. Joined with Atlantic Accountable Care Organization and Optimus Healthcare Partners they form part of Atlantic Alliance, a Clinically Integrated Network of more than 4,000 health care providers throughout northern and central NJ.
Atlantic Health provides care for the full continuum of health care needs through 26 urgent care centers, Atlantic Visiting Nurse and Atlantic Health Virtual Visits. Facilitating the connection between these services on both land and air is the transportation fleet of Atlantic Mobile Health.
Founded by Atlantic Health, the Healthcare Transformation Consortium is a partnership of seven regional hospitals and health systems dedicated to improving access and affordability. Atlantic Health has a medical school affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University, is home to the regional campus of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Centers and is the official health care partner of the New York Jets.