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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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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...

July 18, 2024 On July 16, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), announced the first-ever Licensure Portability Grant Program investment in a multi-state social worker licensure compact. State lice...

July 16, 2024 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched its new voluntary primary care model, the Making Care Primary (MCP) Model, which will be tested in eight states, including New Jersey. This 10.5-year model aims to improve care management and care coordination...

July 9, 2024 The following information was published on and obtained from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) website on July 8, 2024: "Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Ser...

July 8, 2024 On July 3, 2024, a federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS') Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities Final Rule, which was finalized ...

July 5, 2024 On June 25, 2024, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released the Surgeon General's Advisory on Firearm Violence, declaring firearm violence in America a public health crisis. The ...

July 1, 2024 On June 27, 2024, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling blocking a bankruptcy reorganization plan of Purdue Pharma, meaning that there is now uncertainty around billions of dollars of settlement money that had previously been secured for victims of the opioid cr...

June 27, 2024 On Monday, June 17, 2024, New Jersey's Department of Human Services (DHS), Department of Children and Families (DCF), and Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA) formally announced the Home- and Community-Based Services Loan Redemption Program (HCBSP-LRP), ...