New Jersey Statutes 26:16-13. Reporting of information, statistical report
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:16-13
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
(1) No later than 30 days after the dispensing of medication pursuant to P.L.2019, c.59 (C. 26:16-1 et al.), the physician or pharmacist who dispensed the medication shall file a copy of the dispensing record with the department, and shall otherwise facilitate the collection of such information as the director may require regarding compliance with P.L.2019, c.59 (C. 26:16-1 et al.).
(2) No later than 30 days after the date of the qualified terminally ill patient’s death, the attending physician shall transmit to the department such documentation of the patient’s death as the director shall require.
(3) In the event that anyone required to report information to the department pursuant to P.L.2019, c.59 (C. 26:16-1 et al.) provides an inadequate or incomplete report, the department shall contact the person to request a complete report.
(4) To the maximum extent practicable and consistent with the purposes of this section, the department shall seek to coordinate the process for reporting information pursuant to this subsection with the process for reporting prescription monitoring information by a pharmacy permit holder pursuant to sections 25 through 30 of P.L.2007, c.244 (C. 45:1-45 through C. 45:1-50).
b. Any information collected pursuant to subsection a. of this section that contains material or data that could be used to identify an individual patient or health care professional shall not be included under materials available to public inspection pursuant to P.L.1963, c.73 (C. 47:1A-1 et seq.) and P.L.2001, c.404 (C. 47:1A-5 et al.).
c. The department shall prepare and make available to the public on its Internet website an annual statistical report of information collected pursuant to subsection a. of this section.
L.2019, c.59, s.13.