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Medicaid Program for Women with Breast or Cervical Cancer

New Jersey now has a special program for women who have breast or cervical cancer. This program gives full Medicaid coverage for health care with no income or resource limitation for eligibility.

To qualify for this Medicaid expansion group, a woman who is a resident of New Jersey must:

not be eligible for any other Medicaid program;
be under age 65;
be a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident (there is no five-year waiting period for certain groups—for example, refugees and asylees);
be screened and found to need treatment for breast or cervical cancer by a Center for Disease Control (CDC)-funded screening center (see list of CDC funded clinics below); and
not have other health insurance, for example Medicare, individual, or group health insurance coverage.

Applicants must go to the CDC site to apply for the program. Although a woman's period of eligibility for this program lasts only while she is under the age of 65 and in need of treatment for breast or cervical cancer, it provides the full scope of Medicaid services, not only the treatment for breast or cervical cancer.

Last legal review 3/10/05.

New Jersey CDC Screening Centers

New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
Cancer Education and Early Detection
(CDC Screening Centers—by County)

Atlantic
Shore Memorial Hospital
1 E. New York Avenue
Somers Point, NJ 08241
609-653-3484
609-653-3932 (Fax)

Burlington
Burlington Cty. Health Dept.
Raphael Meadow Health Center
15 Pioneer Boulevard
Westhampton, NJ 08060
609-267-1950
609-265-1382 (Fax)

Camden
Barry D. Brown Health Center
106 Carnie Boulevard
Voorhees, NJ 08043
856-325-5542
856-325-3601 (Fax)

Cumberland
South Jersey Reg’l Cancer Center
1200 High Street
Millville, NJ 08332
856-825-3344
856-327-6896 (Fax)

Essex
East Orange Hospital
300 Central Avenue
E. Orange, NJ 07018
973-414-1802
973-414-1880 (Fax)

Hudson
Jersey City Family Health Center
935 Garfield Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07304
201-946-6430
201-946-6484 (Fax)

Hunterdon
Hunterdon Reg’l. Cancer Center
2100 Westcott Drive
Flemington, NJ 08822
908-788-6514 ext. 3528
908-788-2588 (Fax)

Middlesex
Middlesex County Health Dept.
75 Bayard Street – 5th fl.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-745-3100
732-745-2568 (Fax)

Morris
Morristown Memorial Hospital
100 Madison Avenue
Morristown, NJ 07962
973-971-5707
973-290-7138 (Fax)

Passaic
St. Joe’s Hospital & Medical Ctr.
703 Main Street
Paterson, NJ 07503
973-754-2778
973-754-2725 (Fax)

Salem
Salem County Dept. of Health
98 Market Street
Salem, NJ 08079
856-935-7510
856-935-8483 (Fax)

Sussex
St. Clare’s Hospital
20 Walnut Street – Linn House
Sussex, NJ 07641
973-702-2740
973-702-2633 (Fax)

Warren
Warren Hospital – Health Ed
185 Roseberry Street
Phillipsburg, NJ 08865
908-859-6700 ext. 2231
908-859-6848 (Fax)

Bergen
Bergen County Dept. of Health Services
327 Ridgewood Avenue
Paramus, NJ 07652
201-599-6107
201-986-1068 (Fax)

Camden
Cooper Hospital/
University Medical Center
1 Cooper Plaza
Camden, NJ 08103
856-968-7115
856-338-0628 (Fax)

Cape May
Cape May County Health Dept.
6 Moore Road
Cape May Court House, NJ 08210
609-465-1047
609-465-3527 (Fax)

Essex
UMDNJ Women’s Wellness Center
90 Bergen Street – Suite 4400
Newark, NJ 07103
973-972-2777
973-972-0321 (Fax)

Gloucester
Underwood Memorial Hospital
509 N. Broad Street
Woodbury, NJ 08096
856-845-2786
856-251-0383 (Fax)

Hudson
Hoboken Family Planning
2nd & Grand Streets
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201-963-0300
201-963-0303 (Fax)

Mercer
Capital Health Center
446 Bellevue Avenue
Trenton, NJ 08618
609-394-4045
609-394-4046 (Fax)

Monmouth
VNA of Central Jersey
1100 Wayside Road
Tinton Falls, NJ 07724
732-224-6905
732-695-4681 (Fax)

Ocean
198 Prospect Place
Lakewood, NJ 08701
800-621-0096
732-886-4732
732-240-8206 (Fax)

Passaic
Passaic Beth Israel Hospital
70 Parker Street
Passaic, NJ 07055
973-365-5007
973-365-6053 (Fax)

Somerset
Women’s Health & Counseling Ctr.
95 Veterans Memorial Drive
Somerville, NJ 08876
908-526-2335
908-725-7274 (Fax)

Union
City of Plainfield Health Dept.
510 Watchung Avenue
Plainfield, NJ 07060
908-753-3092
908-753-3679 (Fax)

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