New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 33 - CERTIFICATE OF NEED: APPLICATION AND REVIEW PROCESS › Subchapter 6 - CERTIFICATE OF NEED EXEMPTIONS › Section 8:33-6.1 - Statement of purpose

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) In accordance with
				the provisions of the Health Care Reform Act, P.L. 1992, c. 160 and the Certificate
				of Need Reform Act,
				P.L.
				1998, c. 43 and
				26:2H-7.2, the following specific
				health care services or projects are exempt from the certificate of need
				requirement:
1. Community-based primary care
				centers, as defined at
				8:33-1.3, which provide preventive,
				diagnostic, treatment, management, and reassessment services exclusively on an
				outpatient basis to individuals with acute or chronic illnesses in a location and
				manner that is accessible to individuals;
2. Outpatient drug and alcohol services which
				include drug-free and methadone maintenance services and day treatment alcohol
				services;
3. Ambulance and invalid coach
				services, including emergency medical services helicopter, and excluding mobile
				intensive care unit services;
4. Mental
				health services which are non-bed related outpatient services including outpatient
				centers, partial hospitalization programs and case management programs;
5. Residential health care facilities;
6. Transfer of ownership interest, except in the
				case of a general hospital;
7. Change of
				site for an unimplemented certificate of need within the same county;
8. Relocation or replacement of a health care
				facility within the same county, except for a general hospital;
9. Continuing care retirement communities
				authorized: pursuant to P.L. 1986, c.103 (52:27D-330 et seq.) which contain a
				minimum of four independent living units for every one long-term care bed;
10. Magnetic resonance imaging;
11. Adult day health care facilities;
12. Pediatric day health care
				facilities;
13. Chronic or acute renal
				dialysis facilities;
14. Hospital-based
				medical detoxification for drugs and alcohol;
15. Capital improvements and renovations to health
				care facilities;
16. Addition of
				medical/surgical, adult intensive care, adult critical care beds in general
				hospitals;
17. Replacement of existing
				major moveable equipment;
18. Inpatient
				operating rooms;
19. Adult family care
				programs;
20. Hospital-based subacute
				care;
21. Ambulatory care
				facilities;
22. Comprehensive outpatient
				rehabilitation services;
23. Special
				child health clinics;
24. Addition of
				vehicles or hours of operation of a mobile intensive care unit;
25. Basic obstetric and pediatric services and
				birth centers, including addition of basic obstetric and pediatric beds in general
				hospitals;
26. Linear accelerators,
				including Cobalt 60 units;
27. New
				technology in accordance with the provisions set forth in
				8:33-3.7(f);
28. Extracorporeal shock wave
				lithotripter;
29. Hyperbaric
				chamber;
30. Positron emission
				tomography;
31. Residential substance
				abuse treatment services;
32. Ambulatory
				surgical facilities;
33. Same day
				surgery operating rooms;
34. Long-term
				care facilities proposing to increase their total number of licensed long-term care
				beds by no more than 10 beds or 10 percent of their licensed long-term care
				capacity, whichever is less, within a period of five years pursuant to
				26:2H-7.2;
35. Satellite emergency department;
36. A change in cost subject to the provisions set
				forth in 8:33-3.9(a);
37. Replacement at the same site of an existing
				licensed health care facility in accordance with the provisions set forth in
				8:33-3.5(a)2;
				and
38. A proposed change in location of
				the entire complement of beds and services approved in an unimplemented certificate
				of need project within the same county in accordance with the provisions set forth
				in 8:33-3.9(b)1.