Would like to help promote responsive, accessible, quality health care and health insurance?
Call Family Voices of New Jersey! We provide information, assistance and outreach in working toward better health care systems for families of children with special health care needs in New Jersey. Family Voices tackles medical issues affecting special children such as managed care, insurance issues, SSI, and new changes in special education. We have videos, literature, and a national and statewide newsletter-all of which are free. Family Voices also has a speakers bureau for presentations for families and professionals as well. Call us at (973) 642-8100. Special Education Medicaid Initiative Schools are sending letters for parents to consent to access Medicaid for related services such as therapies on IEPs. Typically, if the district wants to access employer insurance, parents need to be aware that if they sign consent, it counts against the child’s lifetime cap on benefits. However, if they have a Medicaid HMO it’s a win-win because it doesn’t count against the child’s cap, and the s
