New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 161B - STANDARDS FOR LICENSURE OF OUTPATIENT SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER TREATMENT FACILITIES
Subchapter 1 - DEFINITIONS AND STAFF QUALIFICATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Section 10:161B-1.1 - Scope and applicability

(a) This chapter applies to all substance (alcohol and drug) use disorder treatment facilities that provide outpatient substance use disorder treatment services to adults and juveniles, including: outpatient, intensive outpatient, partial care, outpatient detoxification, and opioid treatment which includes opioid maintenance and opioid detoxification. Outpatient substance use disorder treatment facilities provide diagnostic and treatment services to persons who present at the facility to receive services and depart from the facility on the same day. The rules in this chapter constitute the basis for the inspection of outpatient substance use disorder treatment facilities by the New Jersey Department of Health (DOH).

(b) This chapter also applies to hospitals licensed by the DOH, pursuant to N.J.A.C. 8:43G, which offer hospital-based outpatient substance use disorder treatment services in a designated outpatient unit or facility or provide any of the modalities of outpatient substance use disorder treatment listed at (a) above. DOH does require a separate license for hospital-based substance use disorder treatment programs; hospitals providing services covered by this chapter shall comply with these standards and shall be licensed, monitored, and/or reviewed by DOH.

(c) This chapter also applies to primary health care facilities, as defined and licensed by the DOH, pursuant to N.J.A.C. 8:43A, which offer outpatient substance use disorder assessment, referral, and/or treatment services or provide any of the modalities of outpatient substance use disorder treatment listed at (a) above. The Division of Certificate of Need and Licensing (DCN&L) does require a separate outpatient substance use disorder treatment facility license for primary health care facilities; primary health care facilities providing services covered by this chapter shall comply with these standards and shall be licensed, monitored, and reviewed by DOH.

(d) Facilities currently licensed as Ambulatory Care Outpatient Drug Treatment Facilities under N.J.A.C. 8:43A shall comply with this chapter and shall apply for licensure as an outpatient substance use disorder treatment facility upon expiration of existing licenses, in accordance with (a) or (b) above.