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Department outlines hospital subsidies and changes to charity care redistribution; administration proposes small raise in hospital admission fee
Summary
Department officials told the Senate Budget Committee the FY26 budget continues large hospital subsidies and proposes two technical changes: allowing declined direct charity care payments to be redistributed within hospital systems and raising the hospital admission assessment from $10 to $12.50 to meet federal requirements.
The Department of Health detailed how the governor's fiscal year 2026 budget would support hospitals and charity care while seeking to reconfigure certain assessments to draw more federal matching funds.
"Hospitals are critical to the state of the art healthcare New Jersey is known for," Dr. Baston said, listing program amounts in the department's budget. The department told the committee the state provides $3,600,000,000 in direct subsidies for hospital systems since the governor took office, including $336,500,000 for the Graduate Medical Education Program, roughly $210,000,000 in combined state and federal Quality Improvement funding, and roughly $600,000,000 across…
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