New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 52 - HOSPITAL SERVICES MANUAL
Subchapter 6 - FINANCIAL REPORTING PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS
Section 10:52-6.66 - Medical Records (MRD)

1. Medical Records shall be responsible for creating and maintaining a medical record for all patients and for maintaining a tumor registry in accordance with Department of Health requirements. (N.J.A.C. 8:43G-21.2(a)). The revenue and costs associated with medical records transcriptions for persons outside of the hospital shall be reported as reconciling items.

2. Functions shall include the following: Coding; typing; abstracting; filing; indexing; accessing; preparing birth and death certificates; processing court and other types of inquiries; maintaining and reporting of data such as patient days, visits, ancillary services and statistics by patient, disease, physician and operation; and coordinating the flow of statistics with certain hospital centers.