NJ Passes Bill Requiring Licensing for All Surgery Centers

The New Jersey Legislature has approved a bill that would require licensing for one-operating room surgery centers, according to a NJ Spotlight report.

 

Under the legislation, S2780 and A4099, unlicensed centers that are currently not Medicare-certified would need to become Medicare-certified. It also makes all surgical facilities — including single-room surgical practices, multi-room ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals — subject to the same licensing by the state health department.

 

While the New Jersey Department of Health currently licenses hospitals and multi-room ASCs, the department does not license surgical facilities with a single room. Under the new law, the one-OR surgical centers will be inspected by the state health department every two to three years.

 

For existing Medicare-certified ambulatory surgery centers, nothing will change with the passage of this new bill.

 

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S2780 was sponsored by Sen. Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex) and A4099 was sponsored by Assemblyman Herb Conaway Jr., MD (D-Burlington County). The legislation was supported by the New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers, the New Jersey Hospital Association and the Medical Society of New Jersey.

 

"This is one of the most important pieces of legislation concerning the ASC industry in New Jersey in years," says Jeffrey Shanton, chair, Advocacy & Legislative Affairs Committee, for NJAASC. "It creates a level playing field, and makes all centers accountable to the same standards. The most important benefit is for the patients, who
can now rest assured that they will be receiving the same safe, quality care wherever they go. We would like to thank Sen. Vitale and Assemblyman Conaway for their tireless efforts in helping to formulate and pass this legislation."

 

Learn more about the New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers.


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