Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:2H-18.60g

  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
8. If a charity care claim is determined to be fraudulent, a hospital shall be entitled to recover from the patient the difference between the amount of the charity care claim and the amount that the patient would have otherwise been charged by the hospital to provide the health care services for which the charity care claim was filed.

L.2007,c.217,s.8.