New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 33 - CERTIFICATE OF NEED: APPLICATION AND REVIEW PROCESS › Subchapter 4 - THE REVIEW PROCESS › Section 8:33-4.1 - Review cycles and submission dates

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The full review
				process involves the review of a certificate of need application by the State Health
				Planning Board, as well as the Department. The Commissioner shall publish in the New
				Jersey Register in February of each year an anticipated schedule for receipt of
				certificate of need applications subject to full review procedures for a two-year
				period, including the current calendar year. The Commissioner may announce
				additional or special calls for certificate of need applications beyond those
				identified in the yearly notice or may delete announced calls from the yearly
				notice. Changes to the published schedule shall be published in the New Jersey
				Register. Wherever practical, the Commissioner shall provide notice in accordance
				with this section to allow for a minimum of 90 days between the date of publication
				of the Commissioner's notice inviting certificate of need applications and the date
				for submission of applications in response to the notice(s). The notice shall
				identify the needed service(s), proposed geographic area(s) to be served, the date
				the application is due, and the date the application is deemed complete for
				processing. The State Health Planning Board shall forward recommendations to the
				Commissioner within 90 days after the application is deemed complete for processing
				unless a fair hearing is requested by an applicant in accordance with the procedures
				identified at N.J.A.C. 8:33-4.14. For batches with
				fewer than 20 applications, a final agency decision will be rendered by the
				Commissioner no later than 120 days after receipt of recommendations from the State
				Health Planning Board or a decision from the Office of Administrative Law, as
				applicable. For batches with 20 or more applications, a final agency decision will
				be rendered by the Commissioner no later than 180 days after receipt of
				recommendations from the State Health Planning Board or a decision from the Office
				of Administrative Law, as applicable.
1. The full
				review process for non-batched applications shall include 12 review cycles. The
				beginning of each cycle shall be the first business day of each month.
2. The full review process for batched
				applications shall be in accordance with the following schedule, except that if the
				first of the month the application is due falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or State
				holiday, the application shall be filed the first business day of the month in which
				the application is due:
Category
Deadline for
						  Submission
Long-term care, specialized ventilator
1/2/03 and
						  annually
thereafter
Long-term care, specialized behavior
1/2/03 "
modification
Long-term care, pediatric
1/2/03 "
Maternal and child health
1/2/03 "
Pediatric intensive care
9/1/02 "
Psychiatric beds
2/1/03 and every two years
thereafter
Rehabilitation beds
3/1/03 "
Children's hospitals
4/1/04 and every three
						  years
thereafter
Transplantation
4/1/04 "
Mobile intensive care unit
6/1/04 "
Trauma
6/1/04 "
Long-term care, general
7/1/04 "
Home health
7/1/04 "
Burn center, program, unit
4/1/06 and every five
						  years
thereafter
New general hospitals
4/1/06 "
3.
				Acceptance of batched applications submitted in accordance with the schedule in (a)2
				above does not constitute a finding by the Department of need for the additional
				beds or services proposed in the application(s).
4. For services with longer than annual submission
				schedules, the Commissioner may announce special calls for receipt of certificate of
				need batched applications upon making a finding of extraordinary circumstances that
				warrant such a call prior to the next scheduled submission date.
5. The Department shall review the schedule in
				(a)2 above for adequacy at least every five years.
6. New cardiac surgery services shall follow the
				procedures specified at N.J.A.C. 8:33E.