New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 52 - HOSPITAL SERVICES MANUAL
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 10:52-1.5 - Eligibility of beneficiary for hospital services

(a) Hospital services shall not be reimbursed by the Medicaid/NJ FamilyCare fee-for-service program when hospital services were rendered prior to or after the period of beneficiary eligibility, as determined in accordance with N.J.A.C. 10:49-2.7; except that, when a Medicaid/NJ FamilyCare beneficiary in an acute care general hospital loses eligibility during an inpatient hospital stay, but was eligible on the date of admission, eligibility shall continue for hospital inpatient services for the entire length of that hospital stay.

(b) When a patient is admitted to a hospital and is determined Medicaid/NJ FamilyCare eligible subsequent to the date of admission, charges incurred during the ineligible period of the hospital stay shall not be reimbursable, unless coverage is pursued and approved under retroactive eligibility.

(c) For coverage of services rendered prior to date of application for Medicaid/NJ FamilyCare, the beneficiary shall apply for retroactive eligibility, in accordance with N.J.A.C. 10:49-1.1.