Pandemic Rules/Waivers Revoked

Effective February 4, 2024, the New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) is revoking three waivers/temporary rules that were previously granted during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, healthcare practitioners will no longer have the authorization to substitute telehealth/telemedicine examinations for any on-site examination or in-office visit for long-term care facilities, assisted living facilities, assisted living programs, comprehensive personal care homes, dementia care homes, and residential health care facilities. Second, the waiver which previously allowed healthcare practitioners to provide services such as (i) offering home health services to patients outside of the approved license/geography or (ii) delivering hospice services to patients outside the hospice service area, will be revoked. Prior approval from the DOH will now be required to offer such services. Finally, the waiver allowing ambulatory care facilities with mobile vans to operate without submitting a service schedule to the DOH will be revoked. These facilities will now be required to submit a service schedule to the DOH.

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