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When Governor Murphy reinstated the Public Health
Emergency, various Departments had been working
on their own waiver extensions via changes to
regulations.
On January 28th, the Department of Human
Services (DHS) shared with NJAMHAA the following
rule waiver/modification/suspension documents,
all of which were effective on January 10, 2022.
Please know that all provide substitute
definitions for "Face to face", "Medication
Monitoring", "Signature", "Telehealth" and
"Telemedicine", or a subset thereof, with the
amended "Telehealth" and "Telemedicine"
definitions stating that they include all
amendments made in corresponding COVID-19 waivers
- essentially providing blanket
extensions to all related existing waivers for
each program.
While some of the rule changes merely include a
short list of these new definitions, others
include additional text where the regulation
being changed required it. The documents with
additional text beyond definitions include:
Programs for Assertive Community Treatment;
Outpatient Services Standards; Outpatient
Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Treatment
Facilities; and Residential SUD Treatment
Facilities.
Each document is linked individually below,
though many more DHS documents can be found on
this
DHS COVID webpage.
• 1/25/22 Relaxation of Rules Pertaining to
Community Support Services for
Adults with Serious Mental Illness
• 1/25/22 Modification of Rules Pertaining to
Licensed Community Residences For Adults with
Mental Illnesses
• 1/25/22 Relaxation of Rules Pertaining to the
Community Mental Health Services Act
• 1/25/22 Relaxation of Rules Pertaining to
Partial Care Service Standards
• 1/25/22 Relaxation of Rules Pertaining to
Programs of Assertive Community
Treatment
• 1/25/22 Modification of Rules Pertaining to
Outpatient Service Standards N.J.
• 1/25/22 Certificate of Modification of Rules
Pertaining to Standards for Licensure of
Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Facilities
• 1/25/22 Certificate of Modification of Rules
Pertaining to Standards for Licensure of
Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Facilities
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