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S3409 • 2026

Prohibits hospital from billing patient for facility fee for services rendered to patient at outpatient facility affiliated with hospital.

Prohibits hospital from billing patient for facility fee for services rendered to patient at outpatient facility affiliated with hospital.

Healthcare
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Stack, Brian P.
Last action
2026-02-09
Official status
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Prohibits hospital from billing patient for facility fee for services rendered to patient at outpatient facility affiliated with hospital.

Prohibits hospital from billing patient for facility fee for services rendered to patient at outpatient facility affiliated with hospital.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits hospital from billing patient for facility fee for services rendered to patient at outpatient facility affiliated with hospital.
  • Topic: Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-09 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee

Official Summary Text

Prohibits hospital from billing patient for facility fee for services rendered to patient at outpatient facility affiliated with hospital.
Topic:
Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S3409

SENATE, No. 3409

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 9, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� BRIAN P. STACK

District 33 (Hudson)

Senator� ANGELA V. MCKNIGHT

District 31 (Hudson)

SYNOPSIS

���� Prohibits hospital from billing patient for facility
fee for services rendered to patient at outpatient facility affiliated with
hospital.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act

concerning hospital facility fees and
supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� a. As used in this
section:

���� "Facility fee" means
any fee charged or billed by a hospital to a patient that is: (1) intended to
compensate the hospital for the operational expenses of the hospital, and (2)
separate and distinct from a professional fee.

���� �Hospital� means
a general acute care hospital that is licensed pursuant to
P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.).

���� b.��� No hospital shall bill,
or otherwise seek payment from, a patient for a facility fee for services rendered
to the patient at an outpatient facility affiliated with the hospital.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill
prohibits a hospital
licensed in the State from billing, or otherwise seeking payment from, a
patient for a facility fee for services rendered to the patient at an
outpatient facility affiliated with the hospital.� The bill defines
"facility fee" to mean any fee charged or billed by a hospital to a
patient that is: (1) intended to compensate the hospital for the operational
expenses of the hospital, and (2) separate and distinct from a professional
fee.