New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 11 - INSURANCE › Chapter 27 - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LIABILITY INSURANCE › Subchapter 7 - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LIABILITY INSURANCE PREMIUM ASSISTANCE FUND-PREMIUM SUBSIDY › Section 11:27-7.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, as used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Board" or "Boards" means the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners, New Jersey State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, New Jersey State Board of Dentistry, and New Jersey State Board of Optometrists.
"Bona fide office" means a practice location at which a licensee engages in any activity or provides any service for which possession of a license is statutorily required or otherwise mandated by virtue of the job description, specification or qualifications. A "bona fide office" shall include a private practice setting, at a hospital, educational institution, research facility, governmental agency or a business. The accessibility of a licensee at the practice location to members of the public in person or by telephone shall not be a determinative factor.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance.
"Completely retired" means a licensure status established by a licensee's affirmative election of an inactive status at renewal pursuant to 45:1-7.3, or through a submission of other written notice, where authorized by the professional practice act to obtain a certificate of retirement. During the time that a licensee is "completely retired," no practice of the profession, within the meaning of this definition, is authorized, including, but not limited to, the prescribing of medications, if authorized within the scope of practice. Physicians, 65 years or older, without hospital or health maintenance organization affiliation, holding a reduced fee license, issued pursuant to 45:9-19.1 6, shall be deemed active licensees and shall not be deemed "completely retired."
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance.
"Fund" means the Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Premium Assistance Fund established pursuant to 17:30D-29.
"Health care provider" is as defined at 17:30D-28.
"Joint insurance fund" means a fund formed by two or more entities to provide liability insurance coverage pursuant to 17:49A-1 et seq., 18A:18B-1 et seq., 18A:18B-25.3 3 et seq., or 40A:10-36 et seq.
"Licensee" means an individual licensed by a Board.
"Practitioner" is as defined at 17:30D-28.
"Qualifying increase" means an increase in medical malpractice liability insurance premiums paid by a practitioner or the self-insured funding obligation of a health care provider eligible to receive a subsidy from the Fund determined by the Commissioner pursuant to 11:27-7.5.
"Risk retention group" is as defined at 17:47A-2.
"Statutorily or constitutionally barred from practice" means a licensure status, including those whose licenses have been revoked or actively suspended by a disciplinary order of the Board or suspended by operation of 45:1-7.1, for failing to timely renew a license after its expiration.