Here are the most recent health care related regulatory developments as published in the New Jersey Register on November 4, 2013:

• On November 4, 2013 at 45 N.J.R. 2378, the Department of Human Services published notice of its proposed readoption of its rules governing partial care services standards.

• On November 4, 2013 at 45 N.J.R. 2385, the Department of Banking and Insurance published notice of its adoption of new rules and the repeal of certain rules regarding standard health benefit plans under the individual health coverage program.

• On November 4, 2013 at 45 N.J.R. 2405, the Alcohol and Drug Counselor Committee of the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy Examiners published notice of its partial grant and partial denial of a petition for rulemaking from Glenn Duncan on behalf of Advanced Counselor Training.  The committee agreed with the petitioner that to be a qualified clinical supervisor, alcohol and drug counselors should obtain the certified clinical supervisor credential from a certification authority that is a member of the International Certification Reciprocity Consortium of Alcohol And Other Drug Abuses, Inc., a credentialing organization.  The committee denied the petitioner’s request to:  (1) amend the regulations to require additional hours of work experience for new licensees who are licensed to provide substance misuse services; (2) distinguish between those that hold another New Jersey license and are also licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselors and those who hold only another New Jersey license; (3) allow licensed clinicians in the process of getting the CCS credential to be considered qualified supervisors; and (4) require qualified supervisors to directly observe the supervisees in one of four specified activities at least once annually.

• On November 4, 2013 at 45 N.J.R. 2406, the State Board of Dentistry published notice of its receipt of a petition for rulemaking from the New Jersey Dental Association.  The petition seeks an amendment to the Board’s rules to reaffirm and clarify that non-licensees are not permitted to improperly use management companies or other devices to acquire or exercise dominion and control over licensed dentists and/or their dental practices.