The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise:
"Ambulatory Care Facility Assessment Unit" or "Unit" means a
unit of the Department for which the contact information is Ambulatory Care
Facility Assessment Unit, Office of Health Care Financing, New Jersey
Department of Health, 55 North Willow Street, 5th Floor, Room 5015, Trenton, NJ
08625-0360, telephone: (609) 376-8530, electronic mail: AAP@doh.nj.gov .
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the New Jersey
Department of Health.
"Covered facility" means any ambulatory care facility that is
required to be licensed by the Department to provide any of the following
services: ambulatory surgery, computerized axial tomography, comprehensive
outpatient rehabilitation, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, magnetic
resonance imaging, megavoltage radiation oncology, positron emission
tomography, orthotripsy and sleep disorder services, unless the facility is
licensed by the Department as a hospital-based off-site ambulatory care
facility.
"De minimis amount" means a difference between reported and
audited gross receipts that results in less than a 10 percent understatement of
a facility's assessment liability.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of
Health.
"Gross receipts" means the payments received by a covered
facility for all health care services rendered in the facility. Gross receipts
are net of returns and contractual allowances and other items that correct for
payments that will not be received. However, gross receipts are not net of the
costs of providing services, payments of taxes, or other costs.
"Uniform gross receipts assessment rate" means the rate that
the Department uses to calculate the assessment on the gross revenues of
covered facilities beginning with the State fiscal year 2011 assessment. The
Department calculates the rate according to
N.J.S.A.
26:2H-18.57. The rate equals 2.95
percent.
