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December 30, 2025Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that all 50 states will receive awards under the Rural Health Transformation Program. This $50 billion initiative was established under President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts legislation. In 2026,...

December 29, 2025 More than 150 members of Congress from both parties recently signed a letter to the Department of Education, urging that nursing degrees be reclassified as professional degrees. “Nurses and nurse faculty make up the backbone of our health system, and ...

December 26, 2025On December 23, 2025, Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill announced that she is naming Dr. Stephen Cha as her nominee to lead the Department of Human Services (DHS). Dr. Cha is a nationally recognized healthcare expert with experience in both the public and private sector, having serv...

December 23, 2025The White House announced on Friday that nine drugmakers - Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, GSK, Merck, Novartis and Sanofi - have agreed to lower the costs of their prescription drugs in the U.S., compared to what they are in other ...

December 16, 2025 In the wake of the Senate’s shooting down of two separate healthcare bills as the subsidies granted by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are set to expire, Republicans in the House have introduced a bill of their own that is scheduled to be voted on at some ...

December 9, 2025 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS') Innovation Center released new details on Monday about the new ACCESS Model (Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions) for certain Medicare Part B enrolled organizations. ACCESS is...

October 14, 2025Vice President JD Vance said on Fox News yesterday that there will be deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on, adding to the uncertainty facing hundreds of thousands of workers already furloughed without pay.Hundreds of thousands of gov...

October 3, 2025 As predicted, the Republicans’ “clean” continuing resolution (CR) that would fund the government at current levels until November 21st and the Democrats’ CR that includes an extension of the enhanced Affordable Care Act market...

Sept. 30, 2025At the time of this writing, the federal government is headed for a shutdown.  While House Republicans passed a “clean” continuing resolution (CR) last week that would fund the government at current levels until November 21st. That CR and one put forth by the Democrats in the ...

September 18, 2025“House Republican leaders Tuesday unveiled a bill to keep government and key healthcare programs running through Nov. 21, but declined to heed calls to address expiring tax credits for federal marketplace insurance plans.,” as reported in Modern Healthcare (September 16, 20...

On July 10, 2025, substance use treatment providers learned that effective July 1, 2025, the New Jersey Statewide Initiative (NJSI) Program and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Initiative (SAPTI) could no longer enroll new members; the funding was restricted to continuing services for pr...

September 4, 2025The House Appropriations Committee is proposing a 6% cut to the budget for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the next fiscal year.The panel released the proposed budget bill for the 2026 fiscal year that governs the HHS, as well as the Departments of Labor an...

August 28, 2025According to a study published by the American Psychiatric Association yesterday, the three most recognizable artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots -- OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude -- have some inconsistencies in their responses when it comes to les...

August 19, 2025The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), a member of NJAMHAA's Education Council, was recently approved by the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) to offer the nation’s first paid two-year apprentice degree in clinical mental health counseling. This new program comes after an exe...

August 12, 2025Acting Governor Tahesha Way signed two bills into law yesterday that will protect individuals who are seeking addiction treatment from being misled, exploited, or referred for profit. These bills will strengthen accountability within the substance use treatment industry, helping ...

August 11, 2025NJAMHAA is sharing the following information from the National Council on Mental Wellbeing's Capitol Connector (August 8, 2025): "On Thursday, Aug. 7, the Trump Administration released the executive order (EO) Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking. The EO directs each fe...

August 4, 2025The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Thursday that opioid medications will be required to have their labeling updated to highlight the risk of long-term use.The agency is requiring opioid manufacturers to add to the prescribing information that higher doses are associa...

July 29, 2025The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted along party lines 12-11 on Thursday to confirm Brian Christine, MD, as the Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In this role, Dr. Christine, a urologist, woul...

July 17, 2025 Doctors are at higher risk of depression, anxiety and suicide than individuals in almost any other profession, according to a global review led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney and Black Dog Institute. The study also looked at the most imp...

June 30, 2025 June 30, 2025NJAMHAA has been requesting an extension of the transition policies for the integration of outpatient behavioral health services to Medicaid managed care for some time and learned today that those policies are being extended, with a new requiremen...