Employee Fringe Benefits are amounts paid to or on behalf of, an employee, in addition to direct salary or wages, and from which the employee or his beneficiary derives a personal benefit before or after the employee's retirement or death. Fringe Benefits associated with physicians are to be reported with physician's compensation. Pensions, annuities and deferred income arrangement costs for past and current services are to be accounted for and reported in accordance with Employee Retirement Insurance and Security Act (ERISA) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requirements. Employee Fringe Benefits include FICA, State and Federal unemployment insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, employee health insurance, retirement (net of actuarial and realized gains on the investment of related funds), worker's compensation insurance, other payroll related employee benefits, tuition reimbursement and other training, moving expenses of new employees of a non-recurring nature, the cost of providing free or subsidized meals or cost to the employee at less than charges to employees, employee parking lot costs net of any revenue received for operation of facility, and other non-payroll employee benefits. The cost of providing health care services to employees is included in classifications of expense in various cost centers providing the funds. Where a hospital elects to self-insure for worker's compensation or unemployment insurance, costs reported should be the amounts set aside for that accounting period plus associated administrative costs, where a separate fund has been established, to the actual amounts of claims paid during the accounting year if a fund is not established. (See N.J.A.C. 8:31B-4.24.) Where a hospital provides free or subsidized health care services to employees or physicians, the hospital's customary charges should be generated and accounted for separately as personnel health allowances. (See N.J.A.C. 8:31B-4.15.) In order to preserve comparability of hospital expenses for provision of direct patient care, purchased employee health insurance expenses are reported as a separate cost center and not distributed to the labor costs of each center. Employee Fringe Benefits are assigned to the cost center in which the employee's compensation is reported on the following bases per N.J.A.C. 8:31B-4.131.
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N.J. Admin. Code § 8:31B-4.54
See: 25 New Jersey Register 3117(a), 25 New Jersey Register 5149(a).