CONAWAY BILL TO VERIFY INCOME FOR HEALTH CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS CLEARS ASSEMBLY

Measure Would Require Income Verification for FamilyCare, Medicaid

(TRENTON) - The Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee today released legislation Assemblyman Herb Conaway, MD sponsored that would curtail abuses of the state's health-care programs for the poor by requiring enrollees to verify their incomes and authorizing state officials to audit recipients. 

CONAWAY BILL TO VERIFY INCOME FOR HEALTH CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS CLEARS ASSEMBLY

Measure Would Require Income Verification for FamilyCare, Medicaid

(TRENTON) - The Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee today released legislation Assemblyman Herb Conaway, MD sponsored that would curtail abuses of the state's health-care programs for the poor by requiring enrollees to verify their incomes and authorizing state officials to audit recipients. 

CONAWAY BILL TO VERIFY INCOME FOR HEALTH CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS CLEARS ASSEMBLY

Measure Would Require Income Verification for FamilyCare, Medicaid

(TRENTON) - The Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee today released legislation Assemblyman Herb Conaway, MD sponsored that would curtail abuses of the state's health-care programs for the poor by requiring enrollees to verify their incomes and authorizing state officials to audit recipients. 

VITALE PHASE 1 HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL APPROVED BY BUDGET COMMITTEE

Bill Would Expand NJ FamilyCare, Set Stage for Affordable Health Care for All New Jerseyans

TRENTON – Senator Joseph F. Vitale, D-Middlesex, the author of a health care reform plan to make health coverage affordable for all New Jersey residents issued the following statement regarding the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee’s unanimous approval of the first phase of his plan, which would expand eligibility and outreach for NJ FamilyCare and enact market-level reforms, with an eye towards affordability for policy holders, on the individual and small group health insurance markets:

“Today’s Budget Committee approval was a strong statement on the feasibility of transformational health care reform in the State of New Jersey. At a time when the Budget Committee is grappling with a substantial fiscal shortfall in State finances, the fact that Committee members would lend their support to this measure speaks volumes on the priorities we hold dear in the Garden State.

BUONO INTRODUCES BILL TO ENSURE INCOME VERIFICATION FOR HEALTH PROGRAMS

TRENTON – Citing a recent report by the State Auditor which detailed how some high-wage earners were able to take advantage of the health care benefits offered to uninsured low- and middle-income families, Senator Barbara Buono today announced the introduction of a measure to ensure greater safeguards and income verification for New Jersey FamilyCare and Medicaid.

KARCHER STATEMENT ON SCHIP HEARING

DUMONT - Senator Ellen Karcher, D-Monmouth and Mercer, the Vice Chair of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee, issued the following statement regarding today's hearing on Congressional efforts to override President Bush's veto on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a program which provides federal funds to State efforts to offer health care access to the uninsured:

WEINBERG STATEMENT ON SCHIP HEARING

DUMONT - Senator Loretta Weinberg, D-Bergen, a member of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee, issued the following statement regarding the Committee's hearing today on Congressional efforts to override President Bush's veto on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which provides federal matching funds to State efforts to provide health care coverage for the uninsured:

VITALE BLASTS NEW FEDERAL RULES TO UNDERCUT SCHIP

Says Administration's Rule Changes Will Hurt State's Efforts to Increase Enrollment

TRENTON - Senator Joseph F. Vitale, Chair of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee issued the following statement today regarding President Bush's newly adopted standards for expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) which, the Senator says, are "a poorly veiled threat to eliminate health insurance for hundreds of thousands of our nation's children."