A 374 New Jersey General Assembly · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Requires Medicaid coverage of social day care services for senior citizens.

This bill requires New Jersey's Medicaid program to cover social adult day care services for seniors aged 60+ who meet the same clinical, income, and asset criteria used for the state's Medicaid long-term care program. It expands current coverage, which only applies to those enrolled in the state's managed long-term care program, to all eligible seniors regardless of program enrollment. The bill mandates the state health department to seek federal Medicaid waivers to secure funding and implement the change, though the law cannot take effect until federal approval is obtained. This would provide community-based daytime support for seniors with functional impairments when their caregivers are unavailable, currently only available to a limited subset of Medicaid recipients.
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Jan 2024
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Introduced Jan 9, 2024 Last action Jan 9, 2024
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Jan 9, 2024
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Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Aging and Human Services Committee
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