New Jersey FamilyCare Simplifies Enrollment Process & Language

New Jersey FamilyCare simplifies enrollment process with new one page application available for use as of July 1, 2005. This one-page application also serves as the application for Presumptive Eligibility for NJ FamilyCare. Stay tuned for more information about online enrollment. To download one page application, click here or to order forms fax a written request on your provider letterhead to the DMAHS General Services Unit at (609) 584-4383 or you can mail your request to:

DMAHS General Services Unit Mail Code 27 P.O. Box 712 Trenton, NJ 08625 Attention: NJ FamilyCare Program (forms)

Presumptive Eligibility Expanded

to Include Children up to 350% of the Federal Poverty Level

Effective July 1, 2005, Presumptive Eligibility will be expanded to include children whose household incomes are between 201% and 350% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL).

This means that beginning July 1, 2005, you may complete Presumptive Eligibility applications for all children who meet the eligibility requirements for NJ FamilyCare. While you may begin completing and mailing Presumptive Eligibility applications for children whose family incomes are between 20% and 350% of the FPL, the computer system modifications that will allow the Presumptive Eligibility Unit to process these applications may not be completed by July1. Therefore, the Presumptive Eligibility Unit will hold these applications in a tickler file until such time as they can be processed. When these cases are processed, you will receive acknowledgment letters just as you do currently informing you of the Presumptive Eligibility determinations. The effective date for Presumptive Eligibility will be retroactive to the date of the NJ FamilyCare/Presumptive Eligibility application.

Family Health Care Coverage Act Signed Into Law (Community Health e-Notes by Horizon NJ Health)