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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...

KFF Shares How Much and Why ACA Marketplace Premiums Are Going Up in 2025

Published: Aug 6, 2024
August 6, 2024 Health insurers submit rate filings annually to state regulators, detailing expectations and rate changes for Affordable Care Act (ACA)-regulated health plans for the coming year. A relatively small, but growing, sha...

Study Finds New Jersey Has Least At-Risk Youth in the Nation

Published: Aug 1, 2024
August 1, 2024 According to a study by WalletHub, New Jersey was ranked as having the least at-risk youth in the nation in 2024. The study looked at rates of poverty, early pregnancy, violence, and other harmful experiences. ...

988 Calls, Texts, and Chats Continue to Increase Two Years after Launch

Published: Jul 30, 2024
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CMS Releases Final Part Two Guidance for the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan

Published: Jul 22, 2024
July 22, 2024 On July 16, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), released the Final Part Two Guidance regarding plan outreach and educa...
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