New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 96 - HOSPITAL FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY › Subchapter 9 - ENFORCEMENT REMEDIES › Section 8:96-9.1 - Enforcement remedies and procedures

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) In
				accordance with applicable enforcement procedures, and in addition to available
				enforcement remedies at
				N.J.A.C.
				8:43E-3, and subject to (b) below, the Department
				may assess civil monetary penalties pursuant to
				N.J.S.A.
				26:2H-13 and 14 for violations of this chapter as
				follows:
1. For failure to submit audited annual
				financial statements or, if applicable, an audited annual statement of operations or
				income, in accordance with N.J.A.C. 8:96-2.1(a), $ 100.00 per day until compliance
				occurs;
2. For failure to post audited
				annual financial statements or, if applicable, an audited annual statement of
				operations or income, in accordance with N.J.A.C. 8:96-2.1(b), $ 100.00 per day
				until compliance occurs;
3. For failure
				to submit unaudited quarterly financial statements or, if applicable, an unaudited
				quarterly statement of operations or income, to the Department in accordance with
				N.J.A.C. 8:96-2.2(a), $ 50.00 per day until compliance occurs;
4. For failure to convene a public meeting
				pursuant to N.J.A.C. 8:96-3.1, $ 100.00 per day
				until compliance occurs;
5. For failure
				to make available, to attendees at the public meeting convened pursuant to
				N.J.A.C.
				8:96-3.1, copies of audited annual financial
				statements and/or, if applicable, the audited annual statement of operations or
				income with respect to a system hospital, in accordance with that section, $ 1,000
				per violation;
6. For failure to timely
				submit to the Department and/or post on the hospital's website all required
				information about the ownership interests of the hospital, management companies, and
				related organizations in accordance with
				N.J.A.C.
				8:96-5.1, $ 200.00 per day until compliance
				occurs;
7. For failure to timely submit
				to the Department a report of a hospital's business transactions with interested
				persons in accordance with
				N.J.A.C.
				8:96-6.1, $ 200.00 per day until compliance
				occurs;
8. For failure to timely post on
				a hospital's website a report of business transactions with interested persons in
				accordance with N.J.A.C. 8:96-6.1, $ 200.00 per day
				until compliance occurs;
9. For failure
				of the hospital to timely notify the Department of the intention of the hospital to
				enter into a sale, lease, or sale-leaseback agreement of the land on and/or building
				in which a hospital is located, in accordance with
				N.J.A.C.
				8:96-7, $ 200.00 per day, starting from the date
				at which notice to the Department should have occurred and until compliance occurs;
				and
10. For failure to disclose that a
				hospital has entered into a sale, lease, or sale-leaseback agreement at its next
				annual public meeting convened pursuant to
				N.J.A.C.
				8:96-3.1, in accordance with
				N.J.A.C.
				8:96-7.3, $ 200.00 per day, starting from the date
				at which notice to the Department should have occurred and until compliance
				occurs.