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NH Rev Stat § 151:12-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:12-b - Hospital Rates for Self-Pay Patients.

    151:12-b Hospital Rates for Self-Pay Patients. –||When billing self-pay patients for a service rendered, a hospital shall accept as payment in full an amount no greater than the amount generally billed and received by the hospital for that service for patients covered by health insurance. A hospital shall determine the amount generally billed to health carriers in a manner consistent with Section 9007 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009. A hospital shall provide written notice to a self-pay patient in advance of providing a service and at the time the service is billed regarding the requirements under this section. For the purposes of this section "hospital" means an institution which is engaged in providing to patients, under supervision of physicians, diagnostic and therapeutic services for medical diagnosis, treatment, and care of injured, disabled, or sick persons, or rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of such persons. The term "hospital" includes psychiatric and substance abuse treatment hospitals. In this section, "self-pay" means a patient seeking care at a hospital who does not have any form of insurance, including, but not limited to, health insurance, MedPay coverage, or any other liability coverage.|||Source. 2010, 240:2, eff. July 1, 2010. 2012, 282:9, eff. June 30, 2015. 2016, 139:1, eff. July 26, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:13 - Information Confidential.

    151:13 Information Confidential. –||Information received or created by the department of health and human services, through inspection or otherwise, authorized hereunder shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed publicly except in a proceeding involving the question of licensure or revocation of license pursuant to RSA 541-A. The department may disclose such information after it denies, suspends or revokes a license pursuant to RSA 151:7, II. The department shall report any information relative to acts which appear contrary to accepted professional practices to the appropriate professional licensing board.|||Source. 1947, 216:1, par. 13. RSA 151:13. 1983, 274:6; 291:1, I. 1995, 310:175, 181, eff. Nov. 1, 1995. 2020, 39:67, eff. July 29, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:13-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:13-a - Proceedings of Hospital Committees; Confidentiality.

    151:13-a Proceedings of Hospital Committees;  Confidentiality. –||I. As used in this section "records" means records of interviews and all reports, statements, minutes, memoranda, charts, statistics, and other documentation generated during the activities of a quality assurance committee. Records shall not mean original hospital medical records or other records kept relative to any patient in the course of the business of operating a hospital.||II. Records of a hospital committee organized to evaluate matters relating to the care and treatment of patients or to reduce morbidity and mortality and testimony by hospital trustees, medical staff, employees, or other committee attendees relating to activities of the quality assurance committee shall be confidential and privileged and shall be protected from direct or indirect means of discovery, subpoena, or admission into evidence in any judicial or administrative proceeding. However, information, documents, or records otherwise available from original sources are not to be construed as immune from discovery or use in any such civil or administrative action merely because they were presented to a quality assurance program, and any person who supplies information or testifies as part of a quality assurance program, or who is a member of a quality assurance program committee, may not be prevented from testifying as to matters within his or her knowledge, but such witness may not be asked about his or her testimony before such program, or opinions formed by him or her, as a result of committee participation. Further, a program's records shall be discoverable in either of the following cases:||(a) A judicial or administrative proceeding brought by a quality assurance committee to revoke or restrict the license, certification, or privileges of a physician or hospital staff member; or||(b) A proceeding alleging repetitive malicious action and personal injury brought against a physician or hospital staff member.||III. A hospital board of directors or trustees may waive its privilege under this section and release information or present committee records by discovery, subpoena, or admission into evidence in any judicial or administrative proceeding.||IV. No hospital, trustees, medical staff, employees, or other committee attendees shall be held liable in any action for damages or other relief arising from the providing of information to a hospital committee or in any judicial or administrative proceeding.|||Source. 1981, 463:1. 2002, 221:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:14 - Report.

    151:14 Report. –||The department of health and human services shall prepare and publish a biennial report of its activities and operations hereunder and shall make such information available to the governor and council.|||Source. 1947, 216:1, par. 14. RSA 151:14. 1973, 140:13. 1983, 291:1, I. 1995, 310:181, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:15 - Repealed by 1981, 460:15, VIII, eff. July 1, 1981.

    151:15 Repealed by 1981, 460:15, VIII, eff. July 1, 1981. –|
NH Rev Stat § 151:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:16 - Penalties.

    151:16 Penalties. –||Any person, partnership, association, or corporation, including state or county or local governmental units or any division, department, board or agency thereof establishing, conducting, managing, or operating any facility within the meaning of this chapter, without first obtaining a license therefor as herein provided, or who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter or regulations lawfully promulgated thereunder, shall be guilty of a violation if a natural person, or guilty of a misdemeanor if any other person, for the first offense. For a subsequent offense, a person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if a natural person, or guilty of a felony if any other person. Each day such facility shall operate after a first conviction shall be considered a subsequent offense.|||Source. 1947, 216:1, par. 17. RSA 151:16. 1973, 528:71; 529:27. 1979, 399:9, eff. Aug. 22, 1979.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:16-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:16-a - Administrative Fines.

    151:16-a Administrative Fines. –||The commissioner of the department of health and human services, after notice and hearing, pursuant to rules adopted under RSA 541-A, may impose an administrative fine not to exceed $2,000 for each offense upon any person who violates any provision of this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter. Rehearings and appeals from a decision of the commissioner shall be in accordance with RSA 541. Any administrative fine imposed under this section shall not preclude the imposition of further penalties or administrative actions under this chapter. The commissioner shall adopt rules in accordance with RSA 541-A relative to administrative fines which shall be scaled to reflect the scope and severity of the violation. The sums obtained from the levying of administrative fines under this chapter shall be forwarded to the state treasurer to be deposited into the general fund.|||Source. 1991, 355:42. 1995, 310:182, 183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:16-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:16-b - Civil Fines.

    151:16-b Civil Fines. –||All administrative fines and other civil monetary penalties collected by the department from facilities licensed under this chapter shall be kept by the state treasurer in a separate, non-lapsing, interest bearing account. Interest earned on moneys deposited in the account shall be deposited into the account. The moneys in the account shall be used by the department for the protection of the health and property of residents of facilities licensed under this chapter.|||Source. 2010, Sp. Sess., 1:10, eff. July 1, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:16-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:16-c - Health Care Provider Facilities; Disclosure of Employment Information; Immunity.

    151:16-c Health Care Provider Facilities;  Disclosure of Employment Information;  Immunity. –||Any health care provider facility licensed under this chapter shall, when acting in good faith, disclose employment information regarding misconduct and competency about a health care worker upon request of a prospective or current employer. A health care provider facility and its directors and employees who provide information in accordance with this section shall be immune from civil liability for providing the information or for any consequences that result from the disclosure of the information unless it is alleged and proven that the information disclosed was false and disclosed with knowledge that such information was false.|||Source. 2016, 284:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:17 - Injunction.

    151:17 Injunction. –||The department of health and human services may, in accordance with the laws of the state governing injunctions and other process, maintain an action in the name of the state against any person, partnership, association, or corporation, or state, county or local governmental unit, or any division, department, board or agency thereof, for establishing, conducting, managing or operating any facility within the meaning of the chapter without first having a license therefor as herein provided. In charging any defendant in a complaint in such action, it shall be sufficient to charge that such defendant did, upon a certain day and in a certain county, establish, conduct, manage, or operate a facility without having a license to do so, without averring any further or more particular facts concerning the same.|||Source. 1947, 216:1, par. 18. RSA 151:17. 1979, 399:10. 1983, 291:1, I. 1995, 310:181, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:18 - Disposition of Fees.

    151:18 Disposition of Fees. –||I. All fees received from licenses under the provisions of this chapter shall be kept by the state treasurer in a separate fund to be paid out to the department of health and human services for purposes of this chapter only.||II. Notwithstanding paragraph I, fees and any other funds collected for special health care service licenses pursuant to RSA 151:2-e shall be deposited in the general fund.|||Source. 1947, 216:1, par. 19. RSA 151:18. 1983, 291:1, I. 1995, 310:181, eff. Nov. 1, 1995. 2016, 198:4, eff. July 1, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:19 - Definitions.

    151:19 Definitions. –||As used in this subdivision:||I. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department of health and human services.||I-a. "Discharge" means movement of a patient from a facility to a non-institutional setting or the termination of services by a home health care provider when the discharging facility or home health care provider ceases to be legally responsible for the care of the patient.||II. "Facility" means any hospital, building, residence, or other place or part thereof, licensed under the provisions of RSA 151:2. For the purposes of RSA 151:21, RSA 151:25, and RSA 151:26, "facility" shall not include home health care providers, or private homes where home care services are provided.||III. [Repealed.]||IV. [Repealed.]||V. "Patient's personal representative" means a person, other than the licensee of, an employee of, or a person having a direct or indirect ownership interest in, a facility, who is designated in writing by a patient or patient's legal guardian for a specific, limited purpose or for the general purpose of assisting the patient in the exercise of any rights.||VI. "Patients' rights" or "rights" means those rights established under RSA 151:21 or RSA 151:21-b, as applicable.||VII. "Transfer" means movement of a patient from one facility to another facility when the legal responsibility for the care of the patient changes from the transferring to the receiving facility. Transfer shall not include the temporary movement of a patient from a facility to a hospital or other location for emergency medical treatment, as long as the facility is in compliance with RSA 151:25. In the event a facility refuses to readmit a patient in accordance with RSA 151:25 following a therapeutic leave, a transfer shall be deemed to have occurred when the decision not to readmit is made. Transfer shall not include movement of a client from a home care to an institutional setting or the shifting of service provision from one home health care provider to another.|||Source. 1981, 453:1. 1983, 274:7, 10, 12. 1993, 243:1. 1995, 310:102. 2001, 111:1, 2, 5, eff. Aug. 25, 2001. 2013, 265:1, 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:20 - Facility Policy and Procedures.

    151:20 Facility Policy and Procedures. –||I. A facility shall adopt a policy setting forth the rights and responsibilities of patients admitted to the facility. Patients shall be treated in accordance with the policy. A written copy of the policy shall be posted at a public place in the facility and provided to each member of the staff who shall be trained and involved in the implementation of the policy. Upon admission the facility shall provide each patient with a copy of the policy and obtain written confirmation that the patient has received the copy and is aware of its contents.||II. A facility shall establish written procedures to implement its policy to guarantee the patients' rights and shall include procedures for the investigation and resolution of complaints made by or on behalf of patients, families of patients or staff. The policy and procedures shall be clear and unambiguous and a written copy shall be available for inspection by anyone. A copy shall be distributed to each patient and each patient's personal representative under RSA 151:22 and shall be available upon request and at cost to anyone.||III. If a patient cannot read the policy and procedures they shall be read to the patient in a language the patient understands. The facility shall make all reasonable efforts to explain the policy and procedures so that a patient with a developmental or intellectual disability may understand and shall have the explanation witnessed by a third person. For a minor or a patient with a legal guardian, both the patient and the parent or legal guardian shall be fully informed of the policy and procedures.|||Source. 1981, 453:1. 1983, 274:8, 10. 1997, 331:2, eff. Aug. 22, 1997. 2008, 52:4, eff. July 11, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:21-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:21-a - Repealed by 1992, 78:2, eff. June 19, 1992.

    151:21-a Repealed by 1992, 78:2, eff. June 19, 1992. –|
NH Rev Stat § 151:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:22 - Patient's Personal Representative.

    151:22 Patient's Personal Representative. –||The patient's personal representative may assist the patient in the exercise of any rights under this subdivision.|||Source. 1981, 453:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:23 - Retaliation Prohibited.

    151:23 Retaliation Prohibited. –||An owner, administrator, employee, or representative of a facility shall not discharge or harass, or retaliate or discriminate against a patient because the patient has exercised a right protected under this subdivision.|||Source. 1981, 453:1. 1983, 274:10, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:24 - Patients' Trust Fund.

    151:24 Patients' Trust Fund. –||I. A facility shall not accept personal funds and possessions from or on behalf of a patient for safekeeping and management, except when the facility receives written authorization from the patient or a personal representative.||II. Upon acceptance of personal funds and possessions, a facility shall do one of the following:||(a) Establish an account separate from the facility's funds, to be used as a petty cash fund for the patient's personal needs and deposit in such account on a monthly basis from the net income of the patient the amount specified in RSA 167:27-a; or||(b) Give a bond with the surety approved by the commissioner. The bond shall be in an amount equal to a minimum of 11/4 times the average balance of patient funds held during the previous year. The commissioner may require an additional bond or permit the filing of a bond in a lower amount if the commissioner determines that a change in the average balance has occurred or may occur.||III. A written receipt shall be given to a patient or a personal representative of the patient when personal funds and possessions are received by a facility. The facility shall furnish the patient or a personal representative of the patient with a quarterly statement of the funds and possessions; except that the New Hampshire hospital shall furnish a quarterly statement only upon request made by the patient or the personal representative of the patient. The statement shall contain the items and amounts received, the sources, the disposition, and the date of each transaction. Upon the discharge of a patient, the facility shall furnish the patient or a personal representative with a final statement and return all personal funds and possessions not later than 10 days after discharge. Upon the death of a patient, the facility shall furnish the executor, administrator, or voluntary administrator, upon proof of appointment, all personal funds and possessions of the deceased patient.|||Source. 1981, 453:1. 1983, 274:10. 1986, 183:2. 1995, 310:183. 1997, 331:9, 10, eff. Aug. 22, 1997. 2014, 315:1, eff. July 1, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:25 - Temporary Absence.

    151:25 Temporary Absence. –||I. When a patient leaves a facility for emergency medical treatment the facility shall hold the bed open for the patient for 10 calendar days, if there is a reasonable expectation that the patient will return within 10 days and if the facility receives payment for the period of absence, provided that no town, city, county, or state funds shall be used for such payment. Temporary absences for therapeutic reasons shall be limited to 10 days a year.||II. When a patient's absence is longer than 10 days, or the facility has not received payment for the period of absence, the patient shall have the option to return to the facility for the next available bed.||III. This section shall not apply to home health care providers.|||Source. 1981, 453:1. 1983, 274:10. 2001, 111:3, eff. Aug. 25, 2001. 2013, 265:8, eff. Jan. 1, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:25-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:25-a - Nursing Home Facility Statement Required.

    151:25-a Nursing Home Facility Statement Required. –||Any nursing home licensed under this chapter, which offers medical services shall provide a written statement setting forth the following to prospective clients:||I. A specific description of the medical services offered on site.||II. The rates charged by the nursing home and what is included in the rates.||III. The client's rights in the event of a temporary absence from the nursing home facility, in accordance with RSA 151:25, and the client's rights in the event of a proposed transfer or discharge from the facility, in accordance with RSA 151:26.||IV. The circumstances under which a discharge or transfer to another facility may occur, including situations in which the client's needs would exceed what the nursing home could provide, and the responsibility of the nursing home in transitioning the client to another location.||V. A statement affirming that the prospective client has received the nursing home disclosure statement in accordance with this section, that the client has read it or it has been read to the client, and that the client understands its contents.||VI. Any other disclosures or information required by this chapter, if applicable, and any other provisions of state or federal law.|||Source. 2006, 239:1, eff. July 31, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 151:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XI - Hospitals and Sanitaria|Title 151 - Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing|Section 151:27 - Abuse of Facility Patients.

    151:27 Abuse of Facility Patients. –||I. A facility licensee, administrator, or employee shall not willfully physically or mentally abuse, mistreat, or harmfully neglect or deprive a patient.||II. The attorney general shall be responsible for the investigation and prosecution of patient abuse or neglect in any health care facility, whether licensed or unlicensed.||III. Any person who violates the provisions of paragraph I of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor for the first offense or guilty of a class B felony if serious bodily injury results. For a subsequent offense, a natural person shall be guilty of a class B felony or guilty of a class A felony if serious bodily injury results, or guilty of a felony if any other person.||IV. Any facility licensee or administrator who shall evict, harass, dismiss, or retaliate against a patient, a patient's personal representative, or an employee, as a consequence of such person's filing of a report under this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.|||Source. 1981, 453:1. 1983, 274:10. 1987, 207:4, eff. July 1, 1987.|