N.J. Admin. Code § 10:76-1.1

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 21, November 4, 2024

Section 10:76-1.1 - Purpose, scope, and eligibility

(a) The purpose of this chapter is to set forth the rules governing the provision of Programs of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) services to New Jersey Medicaid and certain NJ FamilyCare-Plan A beneficiaries and NJ FamilyCare Alternative Benefit Plan beneficiaries.

1. Beneficiaries enrolled under the Medically Needy program (N.J.A.C. 10:70) are not eligible to receive PACT services.

2. NJ FamilyCare-Plans B, C, and D beneficiaries are not eligible for PACT services.

(b) PACT services provide community based, intensive, comprehensive, integrated mental health rehabilitation services by a professional, multi-disciplinary team to adults who are the most seriously challenged by the presence of a serious and persistent mental illness, as evidenced by repeated previous psychiatric hospitalizations and/or a serious risk for psychiatric hospitalization and who have not benefited from traditional mental health services.

N.J. Admin. Code § 10:76-1.1

Amended by 48 N.J.R. 79(b), effective 1/4/2016