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Trump Administration Releases Additional FY2026 Budget Details

Updated: Jun 3, 2025
June 3, 2025The Trump Administration released its Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Budget in Brief providing additional details on spending requests to Congress for fiscal year (FY) 2026. It proposes $94.7 billion in discretionary budget authority for FY 2026, which is a decrease from t...

Many Key Budget Issues Need to Be Resolved over the Next Few Weeks; Everyone's Advocacy Is Urgently Needed

Updated: May 28, 2025
May 28, 2025With the June 30th deadline for finalizing a budget just a few weeks away, there is limited time for Governor Phil Murphy and State Legislators to resolve many key budget issues, which are tax hikes, New Jersey Transit, the budget surplus, affordability (the biggest issue for voters in ...

NACBHDD/NARMH Leader Shares Updates on the Very Fluid Federal Budget

Updated: May 22, 2025
May 22, 2025NJAMHAA is sharing the following information received from Jonah C. Cunningham, President/CEO, National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors (NACBHDD) and Executive Director, National Association for Rural Mental Health (NARMH)."Rules Commit...

Trump Administration May Rescind Mental Health Parity Rule

Updated: May 13, 2025
May 13, 2025"The Trump administration will not enforce a federal rule meant to ensure Americans with private health insurance have access to affordable mental health services and is considering rescinding it altogether, the U.S. Justice Department said in a court filing on Friday," Reuters repor...

Governor Murphy Issues a Proclamation for Mental Health Awareness Month

Updated: May 6, 2025
May 6, 2025NJAMHAA is pleased that Governor Phil Murphy continues to demonstrate recognition of the high prevalence of mental health conditions and support for increasing access to treatment and support services, as evidenced by his issuing of a proclamation for Mental Health Awareness Month.In addi...

DOH Commissioner Dr. Kaitlan Baston Appointed Interim CEO of University Hospital

Updated: Apr 25, 2025
State officials announced yesterday that New Jersey Health Commissioner Dr. Kaitlan Baston has been appointed Interim CEO of University Hospital in Newark, the state's only public hospital, effective May 3, 2025. Dr. Baston has served as the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health si...

Funding for Some Programs/Services Supported by ARPA Funds to Cease

Updated: Apr 1, 2025
April 1, 2025The Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) sent a memo on March 31st informing providers of certain services “that on the evening of March 24, 2025, the New Jersey Department of Human Services received notice from the Trump Administration, federal Department of Hea...

Ongoing Advocacy for Significantly Increased Funding in the FY2026 State Budget Is Needed

Updated: Feb 24, 2025
February 24, 2025Although Gov. Murphy Will Deliver his FY2026 Budget Address on Feb. 25th, Advocacy Must Continue until the Budget Is Passed! Use NJAMHAA's Untold Stories Campaign to Reinforce that All New Jerseyans Deserve Opportunitiesto Enjoy the Highest Quality of Life Possible, and the Nec...

Trump Administration's Push for a Federal Funding Freeze Goes Back in Court

Updated: Feb 4, 2025
A judge is expected to consider extending her temporary block on President Donald Trump's plan to halt federal grants and loans, which originally targeted a wide range of funding totaling potentially trillions of dollars. Today, President Trump’s plan to halt federal loans and ...

Executives Warn that Medicaid, ACA Cuts Could Devastate Hospitals

Published: Jan 28, 2025
January 28, 2025 The proposed healthcare policy changes stemming from President Donald Trump's new administration that aim to limit spending could lead to an increase in Americans without insurance coverage. An article in today's Modern Healthcare reported that in response, "Health sy...

New Prior Authorization Laws to Go into Effect in 2025

Published: Jan 3, 2025
January 3, 2025 State-regulated health insurance companies will now have less time to decide whether to cover treatments and tests prescribed by patients' doctors. As reported in yesterday's Star Ledger, "Insurance carriers will have tighter deadlines in the state to decide whether to...

FDA Recalls More than 233,000 Bottles of Antidepressant over Possible Cancerous Chemical

Updated: Dec 17, 2024
December 17, 2024 An article published in USA Today on December 12th reports that more than 233,000 bottles of an antidepressant sold by a New Jersey based company, Rising Pharmaceuticals, have been recalled. The U.S. Food and ...

President-elect Trump Selects Dr. Oz to Run Medicare and Medicaid

Published: Nov 25, 2024
November 25, 2024 President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday his picks for the agency that oversees health insurance for millions of Americans and his pick for the Secretary of Education. Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is a former television talk show host and a heart surgeon. will be th...

Medicare Premiums Increase; Open Enrollment Runs through Dec. 7th

Published: Nov 14, 2024
November 14, 2024 An article published in Kiplinger's on Nov. 10th reports that several Medicare premiums have gone up, specifically "Medicare premiums for 2025, and the cost of Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B and Part D premiums and deductibles." To determine whether or not next yea...

Advocate for Increased Funding during DHS Budget Listening Session Nov. 19th

Published: Nov 4, 2024
The New Jersey Department of Human Services (DHS) will hold a virtual budget listening session on November 19, 2024 beginning at noon. NJAMHAA urges everyone to deliver verbal testimony to inform the DHS budget for 2025-26. To accommodate as many speakers as possible, testimony is lim...

NJ U.S. Senator Helmy Co-Sponsors Health Equity Innovation Act

Published: Oct 15, 2024
October 15, 2024 U.S. Senator George Helmy (D-NJ) is co-sponsoring the Health Equity Innovation Act of 2024, "a bill that would establish a grant program that would provide federal funding to faith- and community-based organization...

SAMHSA Announces $65.7M in Funding for Prevention, Treatment, Workforce

Published: Aug 29, 2024
August 29, 2024 On Monday, August 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), announced more than $65 million in grant awards and...

New Resource: Early Recognition and Effective Treatment of Early Serious Mental Illness

Published: Aug 20, 2024
August 20, 2024 The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has shared a new resource, a brochure titled, Early Recognition and Effective Treatment of Early Serious Mental Illness: Finding and T...

ANCHOR Applications Filed Automatically for 1.5 Million New Jerseyans

Published: Aug 15, 2024
August 15, 2024 On August 13, 2024, the New Jersey Department of the Treasury announced that next week, the Division of Taxation will begin mailing letters to about 1.5 million New Jerseyans to confirm their automatic eligibility for this season's Affordable New Jersey Communities for...

U.S. Spending on Behavioral Health Topped $280 Billion in 2020

Published: Aug 8, 2024
August 8, 2024 In 2009, the United States as a whole spent $172 billion on behavioral health care, with $148 billion of that going towards substance use treatment and support, and $24 billion going toward mental health treatment and support. In the decade that followed, spending on be...
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