NJ: "Fee-For-Service" will mean Service for Some

This FFS is going to ruin alot of these individuals lives and prevent them from going home for stays with their families and alot more. It is taking away their human rights!

The Dumont mental health facility has been available and life saving over the course of many years. My ability to pay has fluctuated and Dumont Mental health has always been a comfort. Without the proper medication I would not be able to be a contributing member of society. Please encourage others to be teachable about mental health

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Keeping the mentally ill from their needed medication and proper medication is extremely cruel and dangerous to our society. Be kind and treat these people and make them well!!!

Please raise Medicaid reimbursement rates in order to provide high level care. Thank you.

The complexity of the CSS regulations will cause a high rate of claim denials and an increase in compliance costs, leading to deficits for Supportive Housing and RIST services.

Delay the FFS now!

I would like to say that me being a consumer of mental health and I would like to think all the funding helps those in need ive been an addict for over 20 plus years and have bipolar disease anxity disorders and I belive I needed help and got it and now im 16 months clean and sober do to the people who made me aware of all the diseases that I have and for that I am greatful every day I learned how to live life without the use of drugs to drown my problems and now I live a better life with medications that I take I live a normal life today and I love my life

Do NOT do aware with this critical service for some of our most vunerable! There is inherent worth and dignity in everyone. We need to provide affordable support those who struggle with mental health and addition issues.

I am a Social Worker living in Montvale NJ. As a member of the Hills Valley Comittee for Resiliant Youth, we know how much addiction and mental health services are needed in NJ. Full funding must remain! Please reconsider this new fee for service bill. Keep needed money available! Anne Earle, LMSW

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It is very important that the state of NJ continue to adequately fund mental health. There will be countless people who will be cut off from the help they need if funding is not maintained or increased.

Do not cut aid to mental health programs. How about we stop paying everything for illegal aliens! Then there would be plenty of money for citizens in need!

I am a patient of the mental health system. I am so sick of you rich ass jerks making the absolute worse decisions for people whose lives you have absolutely no clue about! Do not allow this Fee For Service to take place! You need to walk in my shoes for 24 hours...you wouldn't last 4 hours! I've lost my ENTIRE LIFE due to mental illness. Everything that I was and had is gone & is now replaced with nothing BUT mental illness!!! Can you imagine what that is like? If you screw me and people like me over with this change, you will answer for this! I will pray to God that you reap what you sow!

If current community mental health agencies are unable to meet state expectations or maintain fiscal solvency, and begin to cut programs, where will persons with mental illness go to receive help? Are we prepared for the tragic fallout of such an implementation?

The need is even greater for mental health services and families need support and professional guidance!

We need more, not less funding and support for mental health care in the State of NJ!

PLEASE DO NOT LOWER THE COMPENSATION RATE FOR OUR MENTAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES!

I feel the transition period should be extended.

If anything we need more resources. Most people don't know what resources exist when they confronted with mental illness.