N.J. Admin. Code § 8:33E-1.3

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 9, May 6, 2024

Section 8:33E-1.3 - General criteria for invasive cardiac diagnostic facilities

(a) For the purpose of certificate of need application and licensure, invasive cardiac diagnostic facilities shall be categorized as follows:

1. Cardiac surgery center;

2. Full service cardiac catheterization facility (without cardiac surgery);

3. Low-risk diagnostic cardiac catheterization facility (without cardiac surgery); and

4. Pediatric cardiac surgery center.

(b) All cardiac catheterization procedures, regardless of the category, shall be performed in a hospital-based facility where inpatient services are available on site.

(c) Only facilities with invasive cardiac diagnostic and pediatric cardiac surgery programs shall be licensed to perform invasive cardiac diagnostic procedures on pediatric patients.

(d) Complex electrophysiology studies (EPS) shall only be performed in hospital-based facilities where licensed cardiac surgery services are immediately available on site.

1. Facilities providing complex EPS shall meet all applicable standards and criteria at 8:33E-2.3(e).

2. Elective PCI procedures shall be performed only in a hospital-based facility where cardiac surgery services are immediately available on site, unless a certificate of need has been granted in accordance with 8:33-3.11.

3. Primary (that is, emergent during acute myocardial infarction) PCI procedures shall be performed only in a hospital-based facility where cardiac surgery services are immediately available on site, unless a certificate of need has been granted in accordance with 8:33E-2.16.

N.J. Admin. Code § 8:33E-1.3

Amended by R.2001 d.210, effective 6/18/2001.
See: 33 N.J.R. 616(b), 33 N.J.R. 2105(a).
In (a)2, substituted "Full service cardiac" for "Cardiac" and rewrote (a)3; in (d), substituted "Complex electrophysiology" for "Electrophysiology" and inserted "complex" preceding "EPS".
Amended by R.2001 d.482, effective 12/17/2001.
See: 33 N.J.R. 3256(a), 33 N.J.R. 4342(a).
Rewrote (d).
Amended by R.2004 d.37, effective 1/20/2004.
See: 35 N.J.R. 3773(a), 36 N.J.R. 416(a).
In (a)3, inserted "(without cardiac surgery)"; in (d), substituted "N.J.A.C. 8:33E-2.3(e)" for "N.J.A.C. 8:33E-2.3(d)" and inserted "during acute myocardial infarction" following "emergent".
Amended by R.2006 d.263, effective 7/17/2006.
See: 38 N.J.R. 53(a), 38 N.J.R. 3025(a).
In (d), substituted "PCI" for "PTCA" two times.
Amended by R.2007 d.387, effective 12/17/2007.
See: 39 N.J.R. 3462(a), 39 N.J.R. 5316(b).
Rewrote (d).