New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 45E - HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL REPORTING RESPONSIBILITY
Subchapter 3 - NOTIFICATION TO THE CLEARING HOUSE COORDINATOR
Section 13:45E-3.2 - Notification to the Clearing House Coordinator by a health care professional

(a) A health care professional shall file a report with the Clearing House Coordinator if that health care professional is in possession of information which reasonably indicates that another health care professional has demonstrated an impairment, gross incompetence or unprofessional conduct which would present an imminent danger to an individual patient or to the public health, safety or welfare.

(b) The health care professional shall file the report required under (a) above if he or she has personal knowledge of the information required to be reported, unless the health care professional is only aware of that information as a result of participation in a review or other proceeding conducted by or for a health care entity.

(c) A health care professional, who would otherwise be required to file a report under (a) above, may discharge his or her duty by joining with the entity in filing a report with the Clearing House Coordinator, evidenced by his or her signature on the report or by receiving written assurance from the health care entity notified that it has fulfilled its reporting requirement.

(d) A health care professional who has signed a report to be filed jointly with the entity and received the acknowledgement and undertaking shall have satisfied his or her duty to file a report.

(e) A health care professional who signs a joint report shall retain a copy of the acknowledgement and undertaking for a period of seven years.