2006 Minnesota Statutes

144.122 LICENSE, PERMIT, AND SURVEY FEES.
(a) The state commissioner of health, by rule, may prescribe procedures and fees for filing
with the commissioner as prescribed by statute and for the issuance of original and renewal
permits, licenses, registrations, and certifications issued under authority of the commissioner. The
expiration dates of the various licenses, permits, registrations, and certifications as prescribed by
the rules shall be plainly marked thereon. Fees may include application and examination fees and
a penalty fee for renewal applications submitted after the expiration date of the previously issued
permit, license, registration, and certification. The commissioner may also prescribe, by rule,
reduced fees for permits, licenses, registrations, and certifications when the application therefor
is submitted during the last three months of the permit, license, registration, or certification
period. Fees proposed to be prescribed in the rules shall be first approved by the Department of
Finance. All fees proposed to be prescribed in rules shall be reasonable. The fees shall be in an
amount so that the total fees collected by the commissioner will, where practical, approximate
the cost to the commissioner in administering the program. All fees collected shall be deposited
in the state treasury and credited to the state government special revenue fund unless otherwise
specifically appropriated by law for specific purposes.
(b) The commissioner may charge a fee for voluntary certification of medical laboratories
and environmental laboratories, and for environmental and medical laboratory services provided
by the department, without complying with paragraph (a) or chapter 14. Fees charged for
environment and medical laboratory services provided by the department must be approximately
equal to the costs of providing the services.
(c) The commissioner may develop a schedule of fees for diagnostic evaluations conducted
at clinics held by the services for children with disabilities program. All receipts generated by
the program are annually appropriated to the commissioner for use in the maternal and child
health program.
(d) The commissioner shall set license fees for hospitals and nursing homes that are not
boarding care homes at the following levels:

	Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and American Osteopathic Association (AOA) hospitals	$7,555 plus $13 per bed
	Non-JCAHO and non-AOA hospitals	$5,180 plus $247 per bed
	Nursing home	$183 plus $91 per bed

The commissioner shall set license fees for outpatient surgical centers, boarding care homes,
and supervised living facilities at the following levels:

	Outpatient surgical centers	$3,349
	Boarding care homes	$183 plus $91 per bed
	Supervised living facilities	$183 plus $91 per bed.

(e) Unless prohibited by federal law, the commissioner of health shall charge applicants
the following fees to cover the cost of any initial certification surveys required to determine a
provider's eligibility to participate in the Medicare or Medicaid program:

	Prospective payment surveys for hospitals	$900
	Swing bed surveys for nursing homes	$1,200
	Psychiatric hospitals	$1,400
	Rural health facilities	$1,100
	Portable x-ray providers	$500
	Home health agencies	$1,800
	Outpatient therapy agencies	$800
	End stage renal dialysis providers	$2,100
	Independent therapists	$800
	Comprehensive rehabilitation outpatient facilities	$1,200
	Hospice providers	$1,700
	Ambulatory surgical providers	$1,800
	Hospitals	$4,200
	Other provider categories or additional resurveys required to complete initial certification	Actual surveyor costs: average surveyor cost x number of hours for the survey process.

These fees shall be submitted at the time of the application for federal certification and shall
not be refunded. All fees collected after the date that the imposition of fees is not prohibited by
federal law shall be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the state government special
revenue fund.
(f) The commissioner shall charge the following fees for examinations, registrations,
licenses, and inspections:

	Plumbing examination		$ 50
	Water conditioning examination		$ 50
	Plumbing bond registration fee		$ 40
	Water conditioning bond registration fee		$ 40
	Master plumber's license		$120
	Journeyman plumber's license		$ 55
	Apprentice registration		$ 25
	Water conditioning contractor license		$ 70
	Water conditioning installer license		$ 35
	Residential inspection fee (each visit)		$ 50
	Public, commercial, and industrial inspections		Inspection fee
	25 or fewer drainage fixture units		$ 300
	26 to 50 drainage fixture units		$ 900
	51 to 150 drainage fixture units		$1,200
	151 to 249 drainage fixture units		$1,500
	250 or more drainage fixture units		$1,800
	Callback fee (each visit)		$100

History: 1974 c 471 s 1; 1975 c 310 s 36; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1985 c 248 s 70; 1986 c 444;
1987 c 403 art 2 s 7; 1989 c 209 art 1 s 14; 1989 c 282 art 1 s 16; 1992 c 513 art 6 s 1; 1Sp1993 c
1 art 9 s 18; 1995 c 207 art 9 s 4; 1996 c 451 art 4 s 5; 1Sp2001 c 9 art 1 s 30; 2002 c 379 art
1 s 113; 2005 c 56 s 1; 2005 c 85 s 1; 1Sp2005 c 4 art 6 s 7