New Jersey Statutes 26:2H-18.59c. Submission of financial and demographic data
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:2H-18.59c
- Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
a. A hospital shall submit demographic information about the persons who qualify for charity care or to whom the hospital provides uncompensated care, which includes, at a minimum: the individual’s age, sex, marital status, employment status, type of health insurance coverage, if any, and if the individual is a child under 18 years of age who does not have health insurance coverage or a married person who does not have health insurance coverage, whether the child’s parent or the married person’s spouse, as the case may be, has health insurance.
b. A hospital shall submit all financial data required by the department for the purposes of calculating the payer mix factor as defined in sections 12 and 13 of P.L.1995, c.133 (C. 26:2H-18.59a and C. 26:2H-18.59b) and section 7 of P.L.1996, c.28 (C. 26:2H-18.59e).
c. A hospital which fails to provide the information required pursuant to this section in a manner and time frame specified by the commissioner, shall be liable to a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 for each day in which the hospital is not in compliance. The commissioner shall recover the penalty in an administrative proceeding held pursuant to the “Administrative Procedure Act,” P.L.1968, c.410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.).
L.1995,c.133,s.14; amended 1996,c.28,s.5.