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144.123 FEES FOR DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY SERVICES; EXCEPTIONS.
    Subdivision 1. Who must pay. Except for the limitation contained in this section, the
commissioner of health shall charge a handling fee for each specimen submitted to the Department
of Health for analysis for diagnostic purposes by any hospital, private laboratory, private clinic,
or physician. No fee shall be charged to any entity which receives direct or indirect financial
assistance from state or federal funds administered by the Department of Health, including any
public health department, nonprofit community clinic, venereal disease clinic, family planning
clinic, or similar entity. The commissioner of health may establish by rule other exceptions to
the handling fee as may be necessary to gather information for epidemiologic purposes. All fees
collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the state
government special revenue fund.
    Subd. 2. Rules for fee amounts. The commissioner of health shall promulgate rules, in
accordance with chapter 14, which shall specify the amount of the handling fee prescribed in
subdivision 1. The fee shall approximate the costs to the department of handling specimens
including reporting, postage, specimen kit preparation, and overhead costs. The fee prescribed in
subdivision 1 shall be $15 per specimen until the commissioner promulgates rules pursuant to
this subdivision.
History: 1979 c 49 s 1; 1982 c 424 s 130; 1987 c 403 art 2 s 8; 1992 c 513 art 6 s 2;
1Sp1993 c 1 art 9 s 19

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