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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 6 - HIGHER EDUCATION IMMUNIZATION › Section 8:57-6.9 - Required immunization; hepatitis B

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(a) Each new student
				entering a two- or four-year institution for the first time on or after September 1,
				2008 enrolled with a course study of 12 or more credit hours per semester or term
				shall have received three doses of a hepatitis B containing vaccine, or
				alternatively any two doses of a hepatitis B vaccine licensed and approved for a two
				dose regimen administered to the student between 11 through 15 years of
				age.
(b) An institution shall be
				prohibited from permitting a provisional period of more than nine months to complete
				the hepatitis B series for each new student entering a two- or four-year institution
				on or after September 1, 2008 enrolled with a course study of 12 or more credit
				hours per semester or term and who has not begun or provided documentation of the
				hepatitis B vaccine series, while remaining in attendance.
(c) An institution shall be prohibited from
				permitting a new student entering a two- or four-year institution on or after
				September 1, 2008 enrolled with a course study of 12 or more credit hours per
				semester or term and who has one documented dose of a hepatitis B vaccine, from
				having longer than six months to complete the three dose hepatitis B vaccine
				series.
(d) An institution shall be
				prohibited from permitting a new student entering a two- or four-year institution on
				or after September 1, 2008 enrolled with a course study of 12 or more credit hours
				per semester or term and who has presented documentation of two doses of a hepatitis
				B vaccine, from having longer than four months to complete the hepatitis B vaccine
				series.
(e) An institution shall not
				require a student who presents documented laboratory evidence of hepatitis B disease
				or immunity, constituting a medical exemption, to receive the hepatitis B
				vaccine.
(f) An institution shall exempt
				a student from the hepatitis B vaccine requirement if the student objects thereto in
				a written statement submitted to the institution, signed by the student or a parent
				or legal guardian if a minor, explaining how the administration of hepatitis B
				vaccine conflicts with the student's bona fide religious tenets or practices, except
				that a general philosophical or moral exemption to the vaccination shall not be
				sufficient for an exemption on religious grounds.
The
				  adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective
				  1/3/2024 is not yet
				  available
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 6 - HIGHER EDUCATION IMMUNIZATION › Section 8:57-6.10 - Required information: meningococcal disease and meningococcal vaccine

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(a) Each new student
				entering any New Jersey four-year institution after September 1, 2001, and prior to
				matriculation, shall be provided information on meningococcal disease to, at a
				minimum, include its nature and severity, causes, disease prevention and treatments,
				and the availability of a meningococcal vaccine to prevent disease.
(b) Each student shall receive a response form, or
				a similar form, from the institution, which documents the receipt of the
				meningococcal information and their response to the information provided.
(c) Each student not returning the meningococcal
				response form shall not be subject to the provisional admission requirements set
				forth at 8:57-6.12(b) and
				(c).
The
				  adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective
				  1/3/2024 is not yet
				  available
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 6 - HIGHER EDUCATION IMMUNIZATION › Section 8:57-6.11 - Institutional responsibility for enforcement

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(a) All New Jersey
				institutions of higher education shall require evidence of immunization as a
				prerequisite to enrollment of all students except those who meet the exemption
				requirements set forth at
				8:57-6.4(b), 6.14 and
				6.15, or those students enrolled in two-year institutions who are registered for
				fewer than 12 credit hours per semester or term.
(b) All New Jersey institutions of higher
				education shall identify to the Department of Health and Senior Services an
				institutional official responsible for the administration and enforcement of this
				subchapter and for the maintenance of immunization records.
(c) All New Jersey institutions of higher
				education shall enforce student compliance with this subchapter within 60 days of
				enrollment.
The
				  adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective
				  1/3/2024 is not yet
				  available
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 6 - HIGHER EDUCATION IMMUNIZATION › Section 8:57-6.12 - Provisional admission

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(a) An institution of
				higher education may permit a student to register on a provisional basis for his or
				her first term if the required immunization documentation is not available at the
				time of registration.
(b) Prior to
				registration for the second term, a student shall either present documentation of
				immunization or proof of immunity in accordance with the requirements of this
				subchapter or be reimmunized, except as provided for the hepatitis B vaccine at
				8:57-6.9(b) through
				(d).
(c) An institution may temporarily exclude a
				student in provisional status from classes and from participation in
				institution-sponsored activities during a vaccine preventable disease outbreak or
				threatened outbreak.
1. The decision to exclude a
				student in provisional status shall be made by the institution in consultation with
				the Commissioner and the exclusion shall continue until the outbreak is over or
				until proof of the student's immunization or immunity is furnished.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 6 - HIGHER EDUCATION IMMUNIZATION › Section 8:57-6.13 - Documents accepted as evidence of immunization

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(a) An institution shall
				accept as evidence of a student's immunization history the following documents
				provided that the type of immunization and the date when each immunization was
				administered is listed:
1. An official school
				immunization record or copy thereof from any primary or secondary school, or
				institution of higher education, indicating compliance with the immunization
				requirements set forth at
				8:57-6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, and
				6.9;
2. A record from any public health
				department indicating compliance with the immunization requirements set forth at
				8:57-6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, and
				6.9;
3. A record or an official college
				affidavit form signed by a physician licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in
				any jurisdiction of the United States or in any foreign country, an advanced
				practice nurse, or any other licensed health professional approved by the
				Department, which indicated compliance with the immunization requirements set forth
				at 8:57-6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8 and
				6.9;
4. An official record of
				immunization from the New Jersey Immunization Information System (NJIIS) indicating
				compliance with the immunization requirements of this subchapter; or
5. A military immunization or health record from
				the United States Armed Forces indicating compliance with the immunization
				requirements of this subchapter.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 6 - HIGHER EDUCATION IMMUNIZATION › Section 8:57-6.14 - Medical exemptions

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(a) A student shall not
				be required to have any specific immunizations, which are medically
				contraindicated.
(b) An institution
				shall exempt a student from the specific immunization requirements for the stated
				period of time based on a written statement submitted to the institution by a
				physician licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy, or an advanced practice nurse
				in any jurisdiction of the United States, or in any foreign country, indicating that
				an immunization is medically contraindicated for a specific period of time, and
				setting forth the reason(s) for the medical contraindication, based upon valid
				medical reasons as enumerated by the 2007 Advisory Committee on Immunization
				Practices (ACIP), Recommended Child, Adolescent, and Adult Immunization Schedules
				and the ACIP Recommendations, available as set forth in (b)1 and 2 below:
1. The 2007 Advisory Committee on Immunization
				Practices (ACIP), Recommended Childhood, Adolescent, and Adult Immunization
				Schedules, which is amended yearly, is available through:
i. Verbal request to the Department at (609)
				588-7512;
ii. Written request mailed to
				the New Jersey Vaccine Preventable Disease Program, Department of Health and Senior
				Services, PO Box 369, Trenton, NJ 08625-0369; or
iii. Online at
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/schedules/default.htm#child
.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 6 - HIGHER EDUCATION IMMUNIZATION › Section 8:57-6.15 - Religious exemptions

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(a) A student shall be
				exempted from mandatory immunization if the student objects thereto in a written
				statement submitted to the institution, signed by the student or a parent or legal
				guardian if a minor, explaining how the administration of immunizing agents
				conflicts with the student's religious beliefs; except as provided at
				8:57-6.8(b)  and
				6.9(f).
(b) The institution shall keep
				the student's statement as part of the student's immunization record.
(c) An institution may temporarily exclude a
				student with a religious exemption from receiving immunizing agents, from classes
				and from participation in institution-sponsored activities during a
				vaccine-preventable disease outbreak or threatened outbreak.
1. The decision to exclude a student with a
				religious exemption shall be made by the institution in consultation with the
				Commissioner and the exclusion shall continue until the outbreak is over.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 6 - HIGHER EDUCATION IMMUNIZATION › Section 8:57-6.16 - Institutional records required

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(a) All New Jersey
				institutions of higher education shall maintain records of immunizations on each
				student in a format either specified or approved by the Department.
1. Each record shall indicate the date of each
				required immunization, laboratory evidence of immunity, or, where applicable, the
				requisite documents, as required pursuant to
				8:57-6.14 or 6.15 pertaining to any
				medical or religious exemptions.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 6 - HIGHER EDUCATION IMMUNIZATION › Section 8:57-6.17 - Reports to be submitted to the Department

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(a) Each institution
				shall provide a report of the immunization status of students each year to the
				Department using the Annual College Immunization Status Report (IMM-3), available in
				the subchapter Appendix.
1. The official
				designated pursuant to
				8:57-6.11(b)  to be
				responsible for the administration and enforcement of this subchapter and for the
				maintenance of immunization records shall submit the report through the mail or
				submit electronically, through the addresses set forth in
				8:57-6.2(a).
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 6 - HIGHER EDUCATION IMMUNIZATION › Section 8:57-6.18 - Records available for inspection

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(a) All institutions
				shall maintain centralized records of their students' immunization status.
1. Upon 24 hours notice, those records shall be
				made available for inspection by authorized representatives of the Department or the
				local board of health in whose jurisdiction the institution of higher education is
				located.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 6 - HIGHER EDUCATION IMMUNIZATION › Section 8:57-6.19 - Providing immunization

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(a) Each institution may
				administer the vaccines required by, or referred to within this subchapter for
				students who are unable to obtain vaccine documentation or obtain the measles,
				mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, or meningococcal vaccines from their own health
				providers.
(b) Each four-year
				institution shall offer the meningococcal vaccine through the institution's student
				health service or by a contractual agreement with a community health care
				provider.
(c) Each two- and four-year
				institution shall offer the hepatitis B vaccine through the institution's student
				health service or by a contractual agreement with a community health care
				provider.
The
				  adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective
				  1/3/2024 is not yet
				  available
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 6 - HIGHER EDUCATION IMMUNIZATION › Section 8:57-6.20 - Reporting requirements

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Each New Jersey institution of higher education shall report the
				  suspected presence of any reportable communicable disease, as identified at
				  8:57-1.5 and 1.6, to the local health
				  officer having jurisdiction over the locality in which such institution is
				  located.
The
				  adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective
				  1/3/2024 is not yet
				  available
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 6 - HIGHER EDUCATION IMMUNIZATION › Section 8:57-6.21 - Modifications in the event of an outbreak or vaccine shortage

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(a) In the event of an
				outbreak or threatened outbreak, the Commissioner or local health officers may
				modify the immunization requirements as set forth in this subchapter to meet the
				emergency.
1. These modifications may include
				obtaining immunization documentation or requiring specific immunizations for each
				student not covered by this subchapter.
2. Each student failing to meet these additional
				requirements may be temporarily excluded from classes and from participating in
				institution-sponsored activities.
3.
				This exclusion shall continue until the outbreak is over or until proof of the
				student's immunization or immunity is furnished.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 6 - HIGHER EDUCATION IMMUNIZATION › Appendix - APPENDIX

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The
				  adopted version of this appendix 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective
				  1/3/2024 is not yet
				  available
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY › Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY › Section 8:57A-1.1 - Purpose and scope

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(a) The purpose of this subchapter is to:
1. Implement N.J.S.A. 26:2-104 through 109, which
				authorizes the Department of Health to establish and maintain the New Jersey State
				Cancer Registry (NJSCR) as the Statewide repository of records of cases of cancer
				and specified cases of tumorous or precancerous disease that occur in New Jersey;
2. Set forth standards for maintaining
				confidentiality of information submitted to the NJSCR; and
3. Set forth standards for the establishment, use
				and maintenance of the NJSCR.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY › Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY › Section 8:57A-1.3 - Definitions

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The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Administrative officer" means a person at a health care facility
				  assigned with the responsibility of ensuring that reports of every case of cancer at
				  the health care facility are made to the Department pursuant to the reporting
				  requirements of this chapter.
"Certified Tumor Registrar" or "CTR<(R)>" means a person who
				  holds certification as such, or an equivalent credential, from the Council on
				  Certification of the National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA), for which the
				  contact information is NCRA, 13340 Braddock Place, Suite 520, Alexandria, VA 22314,
				  telephone: (703) 299-6640, telefacsimile: (703) 299-6620, e-mail: ctr
				  exam@ncra-usa.org, website:
http://www.ctrexam.org
.
"Clinical laboratory" means a facility that conducts tests on
				  tissue or cellular specimens and/or hematologic examinations in order to diagnose or
				  otherwise characterize a disease.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department
				  of Health, or his or her designee.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health.
"Health care facility" means a facility as defined at 26:2H-1 et
				  seq., as amended and supplemented.
"Health care provider" means a health care professional who is
				  directly involved in the provision of health care services and whose practice is
				  regulated pursuant to Title 45 of the New Jersey Statutes and State professional
				  board rules, who in the course and scope of work duties, independently or under the
				  supervision of the appropriate authority, diagnoses or treats patients with cancer
				  or other specified tumorous and precancerous diseases as set forth at
				  8:57A-1.11.
1. Health care provider includes physicians and dentists.
"NJSCR" means the New Jersey State Cancer Registry established by
				  the Department pursuant to this chapter and the authority of 26:2-104 et seq.
"NJSCR mailing address" means the mailing address of the New
				  Jersey State Cancer Registry, which is: Cancer Epidemiology Services, New Jersey
				  State Cancer Registry, New Jersey Department of Health, PO Box 369, Trenton, New
				  Jersey 08625-0369.
"NJSCR webpage" means the webpage of the New Jersey State Cancer
				  Registry available at
www.nj.gov/health/ces
.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY › Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY › Section 8:57A-1.4 - Reporting of cancer; general requirements

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(a) Every New Jersey
				health care facility, physician, dentist, other health care provider, and clinical
				laboratory shall report to the Department the reportable diseases and conditions
				established at N.J.A.C. 8:57A-1.11.
(b) Every New Jersey health care facility,
				physician, dentist, other health care provider, and clinical laboratory shall submit
				all case reports within six months of the date of first contact with the patient for
				the reportable condition as defined by the NAACCR Data Standards for Cancer
				Registries--Data Standards and Data Dictionary (Volume II--Version 16).
(c) Every New Jersey health care facility shall
				submit follow-up data on each cancer case, as requested and in the format specified
				by the Department, to confirm the patient's vital status until the patient's
				death.
(d) Every New Jersey health care
				facility, physician, dentist, and other health care provider shall use the SEER
				Program Coding and Staging Manual 2016 when abstracting and coding cancer
				data.
(e) A health care facility,
				physician, dentist, other health care provider, or clinical laboratory may apply for
				a no-cost software program to report information on cases of cancer electronically
				to the NJSCR by contacting the NJSCR at njscrdat@doh.nj.gov.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY › Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY › Section 8:57A-1.5 - Health care facility reporting

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(a) The administrative
				officer of every health care facility shall report to the Department every case of
				cancer or other specified tumorous and precancerous disease when it is initially
				diagnosed, when the patient is first admitted or treated for any reason in that
				facility, including admissions and discharges to inpatient or outpatient services,
				and when subsequent primary cancer is diagnosed in that patient.
(b) A CTR<(R)> shall perform all abstracting
				work and oversee all case-finding for a health care facility that diagnoses and/or
				treats 100 or more cancer cases per year.
1.
				Either the health care facility or an abstract-coding service under contract with
				the health care facility shall employ the CTR<(R)>; and
2. A health care facility shall notify the NJSCR
				by e-mail to ops.njscr@doh.nj.gov of the name and contact information for the
				CTR<(R)>, and of any changes to registry staff or contact information;
				and
3. A health care facility that
				contracts with an abstract-coding service shall be responsible for ensuring the
				abstract-coding service complies with the provisions of this chapter.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY › Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY › Section 8:57A-1.6 - Physician, dentist, and other health care provider reporting

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(a) Every physician,
				dentist, or other health care provider who diagnoses or provides treatment for
				cancer patients shall submit an electronic report to the Department with an initial
				diagnosis of each case of cancer or other specified tumorous and precancerous
				disease and for each subsequent primary cancer diagnosed in that person, using
				either the NAACCR Data Standards for Cancer Registries -- Data Standards and Data
				Dictionary (Volume II --Version 16) or another standard electronic reporting format
				approved by the Department that includes all required data elements set forth in the
				"NAACCR Data Standards for Cancer Registries--Data Standards and Dictionary (Volume
				II)," such as patient identifying information, medical history, cancer treatment,
				and cancer stage.
(b) The physician,
				dentist, or other health care provider may use the "NJSCR Abstract Instruction
				Manual For Physicians, Ambulatory Care Centers and Radiation Treatment Facilities
				2017," incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented, as guidance
				when reporting.
(c) A physician,
				dentist, or other health care provider who fails to report cases of cancer or other
				specified tumorous and precancerous diseases shall be liable for a penalty of up to
				$ 500.00 per unreported case for violation of the Cancer Registry Act.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY › Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY › Section 8:57A-1.7 - Clinical laboratory reporting

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(a) The director of
				every clinical laboratory shall report electronically to the Department the results
				of examinations of tissue specimens and/or hematology examinations that are positive
				for the existence of cancer or other specified tumorous and precancerous disease
				using the HL-7 standard protocol set forth in the NAACCR Standards for Cancer
				Registries Volume V: Pathology Laboratory Electronic Reporting or the NAACCR Data
				Standards for Cancer Registries--Data Standards and Data Dictionary (Volume
				II--Version 16), which includes all available patient identifying information, the
				tissue examined, and the results of the pathologic examination, and the name,
				address and/or telephone number of the referring physician.
(b) A clinical laboratory that fails to report
				cases of cancer or other specified tumorous and precancerous diseases shall be
				liable for a penalty of up to $ 500.00 per unreported case.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY › Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY › Section 8:57A-1.8 - Health care insurer reporting

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Health care insurers and other third-party health care payers
				  providing benefit plans to residents of the State shall report electronically to the
				  Department information on cases of cancer or other specified tumorous and
				  precancerous diseases based upon selection criteria, established at
				  N.J.A.C.
				  8:57A-1.11, upon request of the Department in the
				  format specified by the Department in the request set forth in this section; and
				  that includes patient identifying information and medical information, such as
				  medical history, cancer treatment, cancer stage at diagnosis information, and
				  co-morbid conditions.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY › Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY › Section 8:57A-1.9 - Supplemental information

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(a) Every New Jersey health care facility,
				physician, dentist, other health care provider, and clinical laboratory shall report
				supplemental information necessary to clarify medical or demographic data upon
				request of the Department, such as copies of pathology and/or hematology reports,
				operative reports, treatment information, history and physical sections of the
				medical records and discharge summaries, and other information as deemed necessary
				by the NJSCR.
(b) If the NJSCR
				determines that more information is needed, NJSCR staff will contact, as
				appropriate, the health care facility physician, dentist, other health care
				provider, and clinical laboratory, to obtain this information in the form and manner
				specified by the NJSCR at that time of the request.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY › Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY › Section 8:57A-1.10 - Access to information and records

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(a) Every health care
				facility, clinical laboratory, physician, dentist, and other health care provider
				diagnosing or providing treatment for cancer patients and health care insurers and
				other third-party health care payers providing benefit plans to residents of the
				State shall allow representatives of the Department, or its designee, to obtain
				information from all medical, pathological, and other pertinent records and logs
				related to cancer cases, as necessary for fulfilling the functions of the NJSCR.
1. Access to records set forth in
(a) above shall be given through secure,
				electronic remote means where requested and where available.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY › Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY › Section 8:57A-1.11 - Reportable diseases and conditions

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(a) Every New Jersey
				health care facility, physician, dentist, other health care provider, and clinical
				laboratory shall report to the Department, in accordance with this chapter, any case
				having a diagnosis meeting the criteria at (b) below that contains any of the
				following terms in the final diagnosis:
Apparent(ly);
Appears;
Compatible/Compatible with;
Consistent with;
Favors;
Malignant appearing;
Most likely;
Presumed; Probable; Suspect(ed); Suspicious (for); and/or Typical
				  (of).
(b) Subject to (c) below,
				every New Jersey health care facility, physician, dentist, other health care
				provider, and clinical laboratory shall report to the Department, in accordance with
				this chapter, all cases having the following diagnoses:
1. All in situ or invasive neoplasms that have
				behavior codes "/2" or "/3" in the ICD-O; or
2. All solid tumors of the brain and the central
				nervous system, including the meninges and intracranial endocrine structures, that
				have the following behavior codes in the ICD-O:
i.
				"/0" benign disease;
ii. "/1" disease of
				uncertain malignant potential;
iii. "/2"
				in situ disease; or
iv. "/3" malignant
				disease.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY › Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY › Section 8:57A-1.12 - Audit, Letter, and notice of violations and enforcement actions

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(a) A health care
				facility, physician's, dentist's, other health care provider's office, and clinical
				laboratory shall be subject to audit at the discretion of the Commissioner by
				authorized representatives of the Department.
(b) The Department, or its designee, shall
				evaluate completeness and timeliness of reporting as specified by this subchapter by
				reviewing documents, such as medical records, diagnostic indices of radiation,
				laboratory, cytology and/or pathology reports, and discharge records.
(c) Authorized representatives of the Department
				shall conduct the audit during normal operating hours.
(d) The Department's authorized representatives
				may cite a deficiency upon a determination that the health care facility,
				physician's, dentist's, other health care provider's office, and clinical laboratory
				does not comply with the reporting requirements established in this
				subchapter.
(e) At the conclusion of the
				audit or within 10 business days thereafter, the Department or its designee shall
				provide the health care facility, physician's, dentist's, other health care
				provider's office or independent clinical laboratory with a written Letter of
				Potential Violation and Potential Assessment (Letter) summarizing any factual
				findings used as a basis to determine that reporting has not been complete or
				timely.
1. The Department or its designee shall
				set forth in the Letter the proposed assessment of civil monetary penalties, and as
				applicable, the specific reasons for the action.
2. The Department or its designee shall serve the
				Letter on a facility, physician, dentist, other health care provider or independent
				clinical laboratory or its, his or her registered agent in person or by certified
				mail.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY › Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY › Section 8:57A-1.13 - Civil monetary penalties

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(a) Pursuant to N.J.S.A.
				26:2-106f(3) and notwithstanding the provisions of
				8:57A-1.12(f)1, the
				Commissioner may assess a penalty for violation of reporting requirements in
				accordance with the following standards:
1. For
				failure of a health care facility, physician, dentist or other health care provider
				to report pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, up to $ 500.00 per unreported
				case of cancer or other specified tumorous and precancerous disease;
				and/or
2. For failure of a health care
				facility to report electronically, up to $ 1,000 per business day.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY › Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY › Section 8:57A-1.14 - Failure to pay a penalty; remedies

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(a) Upon receipt of a
				Notice of Violation and Penalty Assessment (Notice), a health care facility,
				physician, dentist or other health care provider has 30 days in which to notify the
				Department or its designee in writing of its, his or her answer to the Notice and
				request for a hearing pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act,
				52:14B-1 et seq.
(b) The penalty becomes due and owing upon the
				31st day from receipt of the Notice if the Department or its designee has not
				received a written answer and request for a hearing.
1. If the recipient of the Notice has requested a
				hearing, the penalty is due 45 days after the issuance of a Final Agency Decision by
				the Commissioner, if the Department or its designee has not withdrawn, rescinded or
				reversed its assessment, and an appeal has not been timely filed with the Appellate
				Division pursuant to Rule 2:2-3 of the New Jersey Court Rules.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY › Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY › Section 8:57A-1.15 - Hearings

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(a) Upon request, a
				hearing shall be afforded to a health care facility, physician, dentist or other
				health care provider pursuant to
				8:57A-1.14.
(b) A health care facility, physician, dentist or
				other health care provider shall notify the Department or its designee, in writing,
				of its request for a hearing within 30 days of receipt of a Notice of Violation and
				Penalty Assessment.
(c) The Department
				or its designee shall transmit the hearing request to the Office of Administrative
				Law, which will conduct the hearing pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act,
				52:14B-1 et seq., and the Uniform
				Administrative Procedure Rules, N.J.A.C. 1:1.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57A - CANCER REGISTRY › Subchapter 1 - CANCER REGISTRY › Section 8:57A-1.16 - Settlement of enforcement actions

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(a) A health care
				facility, physician, dentist or other health care provider may request that the
				matter be settled in lieu of conducting an administrative hearing concerning an
				enforcement action.
(b) If the
				Department or its designee and the health care facility, physician, dentist or other
				health care provider agree on the terms of a settlement, a written agreement
				specifying these terms shall be executed.
(c) The Department or its designee may agree to
				accept payment of penalties over a schedule not exceeding 18 months where a health
				care facility, physician, dentist or other health care provider demonstrates
				financial hardship.
(d) All funds
				received in payment of penalties shall be recovered by and in the name of the
				Department and shall be dedicated to the New Jersey State Cancer Registry.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57B - HEPATITIS INOCULATION FUND › Subchapter 1 - FUND PROVISION › Section 8:57B-1.1 - Purpose and scope

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The purpose of this subchapter is to establish a uniform process
				  for allocating the Fund's resources among municipalities in accordance with the
				  priorities set forth in the Act. The Fund shall be used to reimburse municipalities
				  for expenses incurred in the provision of hepatitis B inoculations of emergency
				  medical technicians, firefighters, and police officers. The following rules are
				  established to implement the Hepatitis Inoculation Fund Act,
				  N.J.S.A.
				  26:4-100.13et seq., an act providing for the
				  payment of the cost of hepatitis inoculations for certain health and safety
				  workers.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57B - HEPATITIS INOCULATION FUND › Subchapter 1 - FUND PROVISION › Section 8:57B-1.2 - Definitions

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The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Act" means
				  N.J.S.A.
				  26:4-100.13et seq., which establishes the
				  Hepatitis Inoculation Fund.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Health.
"Covered individual" means emergency medical technicians,
				  firefighters and police officers.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health.
"Division" means the Division of Epidemiology, Environmental and
				  Occupational Health, for which the mailing address is Division of Epidemiology,
				  Environmental and Occupational Health, New Jersey Department of Health, PO Box 369,
				  Trenton, NJ 08625-0369.
"Emergency medical technician" or "EMT" means an emergency medical
				  technician--basic as N.J.A.C. 8:40A defines that term.
"Hepatitis Inoculation Fund" or "Fund" means the fund established
				  and administered in accordance with NJ.S.A. 26:4-100.13 et seq.
"Reimbursable costs" means the cost of hepatitis B vaccine, equal
				  to, or less than, the cost of the purchase of the vaccine at the prevailing State
				  contract rate, and the cost of such fees for professional medical services for
				  administration of the vaccine.
"Volunteer" means a person who provides services without any
				  express or implied promise of remuneration.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57B - HEPATITIS INOCULATION FUND › Subchapter 1 - FUND PROVISION › Section 8:57B-1.3 - General requirements

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(a) The Fund shall
				provide financial assistance to municipalities in the form of reimbursement of
				expenses incurred in providing hepatitis B inoculations to certain emergency
				services personnel.
(b) Each applicant
				municipality shall appoint a liaison who shall be responsible for preparing and
				submitting an application to the Division on behalf of all emergency services
				personnel within its jurisdiction.
1. Applications
				received by the Division directly from individual first aid and rescue squads, fire
				companies, departments, and districts, and police departments or their members
				and/or staffs shall be disallowed.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57B - HEPATITIS INOCULATION FUND › Subchapter 1 - FUND PROVISION › Section 8:57B-1.4 - Application process by municipalities for reimbursement

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(a)
				Municipalities shall submit an application for reimbursable costs in the format
				prescribed at (d) below by a specified deadline date as determined by the Division.
				This application shall remain valid until all municipalities have been
				reimbursed.
(b) Reimbursable costs shall
				include the cost of the hepatitis B vaccine and the cost of fees for professional
				medical services for administration of the vaccine. Reimbursable cost of the
				hepatitis B vaccine shall not exceed the cost of the purchase of the vaccine at the
				prevailing State contract rate.
(c) Only
				applications for reimbursable costs from municipalities shall be honored. Requests
				for reimbursement from individual first aid and rescue squads, fire departments,
				districts, and companies, and police departments or their members and/or staffs
				shall be disallowed.
(d) Each
				application for reimbursable costs shall be in the form of a letter to the Division
				and shall include the following information:
1.
				The name of the municipality;
2. The
				total amount expended for inoculations of each of the individuals specified in (d)4
				below;
3. The amount sought for
				reimbursement;
4. The composition of the
				municipality's emergency services personnel, including the number of volunteer
				emergency medical technicians, the number of volunteer firefighters, the number of
				paid emergency medical technicians, the number of paid firefighters and the number
				of police officers;
5. Actual
				reimbursable costs incurred for inoculations of each of the individuals specified in
				(d)4 above, categorized according to the total amount incurred for the hepatitis B
				vaccine and the cost of fees of professional medical services for administration of
				the vaccine; and
6. A statement
				certifying that the reimbursement applied for represents actual costs incurred and
				that such costs are not eligible for coverage, and have not been covered through any
				other source.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57B - HEPATITIS INOCULATION FUND › Subchapter 1 - FUND PROVISION › Section 8:57B-1.5 - Funding and allocation

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(a) The amount available
				to fund reimbursable costs is contingent upon the total amount collected and
				deposited into the Fund and designated by the State Treasurer as available for
				distribution.
(b) The amount of
				reimbursement per municipality shall not exceed $ 5,000 per reimbursement
				cycle.
(c) All reimbursements shall be
				made based on the cost of the purchase of vaccine at the prevailing State contract
				rate.
(d) All reimbursements may include
				the cost of professional medical services to administer the vaccine which are
				reasonable and customary in the locality.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57B - HEPATITIS INOCULATION FUND › Subchapter 1 - FUND PROVISION › Section 8:57B-1.6 - Lottery

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(a) At the close of the application period, all
				applications shall be reviewed by the Division for eligibility and subsequently
				sorted into the tiers as specified in the eligibility schedule at
				8:57B-1.3(c).
1. An applicant municipality that falls into more
				than one tier on the eligibility schedule, for example, those that have both
				volunteer and paid EMTs, shall submit applications for each eligibility category to
				which they are entitled, pursuant to
				8:57B-1.3(c).
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57B - HEPATITIS INOCULATION FUND › Subchapter 1 - FUND PROVISION › Section 8:57B-1.7 - Use of hepatitis inoculation funds by municipalities

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Monies from the Fund that are distributed to the municipalities
				  shall be used for the purposes specified in the Act and shall not supplant budgeted
				  funding or any other available funding currently in existence
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57B - HEPATITIS INOCULATION FUND › Subchapter 1 - FUND PROVISION › Section 8:57B-1.8 - Accounting and audit

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The State of New Jersey reserves the right to periodically audit
				  any of the records referenced in this subchapter.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57B - HEPATITIS INOCULATION FUND › Subchapter 1 - FUND PROVISION › Section 8:57B-1.9 - Division responsibilities

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(a) The Division shall:
1. Establish specific application periods as
				necessary;
2. Screen requests for
				reimbursement from municipal applicants to determine eligibility;
3. Conduct a lottery to determine municipal
				ranking, if required by
				N.J.A.C.
				8:57B-1.6(b);
4. Maintain oversight of the program;
				and
5. Administer the Fund on a
				day-to-day basis;
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 58 - REPORTABLE OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES, INJURIES, AND POISONINGS › Subchapter 1 - OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES, INJURIES, AND POISONINGS › Section 8:58-1.1 - Purpose and scope

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(a) The purpose of this chapter is to establish
				standards by which hospitals and health care providers are to report occupational
				and environmental diseases, injuries, and poisonings to the Department pursuant to
				26:1A-7.
(b) This chapter applies to hospitals and health
				care providers.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 58 - REPORTABLE OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES, INJURIES, AND POISONINGS › Subchapter 1 - OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES, INJURIES, AND POISONINGS › Section 8:58-1.4 - Hospital reporting of occupational and environmental diseases, injuries, and poisonings

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(a) The administrator of a hospital in which a
				person receives a diagnosis of a disease, injury, or poisoning that (b), (c), and
				(d) below identify shall report the diagnosis to the Department, using the
				applicable ICD-10-CM code, as part of the hospital's discharge data reporting
				pursuant to 26:2H-1 et seq., and N.J.A.C. 8:31B.
1. A person receives a diagnosis pursuant to (a)
				above if the disease, injury, or poisoning appears as a diagnosis in the person's
				discharge summary.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 58 - REPORTABLE OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES, INJURIES, AND POISONINGS › Subchapter 1 - OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES, INJURIES, AND POISONINGS › Section 8:58-1.5 - Health care provider reporting of occupational and environmental diseases, injuries, and poisonings

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(a) A health care provider who diagnoses a person
				as having a disease, injury, or poisoning that (b), (c), or (d) below identify shall
				complete the Occupational Disease, Injury, or Poisoning Report by Health Care
				Provider form with respect to the patient and submit the completed form to the
				Occupational Health Surveillance Unit within 30 days of making the
				diagnosis.
(b) The following diseases
				and conditions are reportable pursuant to (a) above:
1. Asbestosis;
2. Asthma, confirmed, work-related, and suspected,
				work-related;
3. Hypersensitivity
				Pneumonitis;
4. Silicosis;
5. Unspecified/Other Pneumoconiosis; and
6. Other occupational disease.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 58 - REPORTABLE OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES, INJURIES, AND POISONINGS › Subchapter 1 - OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES, INJURIES, AND POISONINGS › Section 8:58-1.6 - Additional information to be provided

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The Department may require a hospital and/or a health care
				  provider to provide additional information after receipt of a report pursuant to
				  this chapter if information is missing or if the Department requires other
				  information as necessary to conduct surveillance, perform research, and/or undertake
				  other public health activities.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 58 - REPORTABLE OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES, INJURIES, AND POISONINGS › Subchapter 1 - OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES, INJURIES, AND POISONINGS › Section 8:58-1.7 - Confidentiality

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(a) The reports and forms submitted to the
				Department pursuant to this chapter contain demographic and medical information
				related to the Department's investigations and epidemiological studies of
				occupational and environmental diseases, injuries, and poisonings and shall not be
				considered "government records" subject to public access or inspection within the
				meaning of 47:1A-1 et seq. and shall be deemed:
1. "Information relating to medical... history,
				diagnosis, treatment, or evaluation" within the meaning of Executive Order No. 26,
				§4(b)1 (McGreevey, August 13, 2002);
2. "Records concerning morbidity, mortality and
				reportable diseases of named persons required to be made, maintained or kept by any
				State or local governmental agency" within the meaning of Executive Order No. 9,
				§2(c) (Hughes, September 30, 1963); and/or
3. Information "for use in the field of forensic
				pathology or for use in medical or scientific education or research" pursuant to
				47:1A-1.1.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 58 - REPORTABLE OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES, INJURIES, AND POISONINGS › Subchapter 1 - OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES, INJURIES, AND POISONINGS › Section 8:58-1.8 - Penalties

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(a) Violations of this
				chapter are subject to the penalties established at
				26:1A-10.
1. Each violation of any provision of this chapter
				constitutes a separate offense.