S 4656 New Jersey Senate · 2024-2025 Regular Session

"Healthcare Finance Enhancement Act."

This bill amends New Jersey's healthcare facility licensing laws to strengthen oversight and transparency. It requires all ambulatory care facilities and hospitals to maintain specific systems for cost accounting, discharge planning, and annual service planning, while capping license fees at $10,000 for hospitals and $4,000 for other facilities. Key provisions include mandating public posting of inspection reports (including serious violations) on the department's website within 72 hours and requiring surgical practices to obtain licensure within one year. The bill directly affects healthcare facilities operating in New Jersey, particularly those providing surgical services or ambulatory care, by standardizing licensing requirements and increasing accountability through public reporting.
Sub-Topics: Medical Licensing
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jun 23, 2025 Last action Jun 30, 2025
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Introduced Version → Reprint SBA 6/26/25 1R · 2 edits
MINOR
The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee amended S4656 by narrowing the scope of the ambulatory care facility assessment as it applies to previously exempt facilities. Instead of assessing 2.5 percent of a facility's total gross receipts beginning in Fiscal Year 2027, the amendment limits the assessment to only gross receipts from 'operating room services,' defined as surgical or diagnostic procedures performed in a specifically equipped operating room. This reduces the financial burden on previously exempt facilities (such as surgical practices) by excluding non-surgical revenue from the tax base.
SCOPE

For ambulatory care facilities that were previously exempt from the assessment under section 12 of P.L.1971, c.136, the 2.5 percent assessment beginning in Fiscal Year 2027 now applies only to gross receipts from operating room services rather than all gross receipts of the facility.

DEFINITION

Added a new definition of 'operating room services' meaning surgical or diagnostic procedures performed in a room specifically equipped to perform surgery, and designed and constructed to accommodate invasive diagnostic and surgical procedures.

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Committee
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Jun 26, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported out of Senate Committee with Amendments, 2nd Reading
upper
Jun 23, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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Joe Vitale
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