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HB 699 Original 2016 Regular Session Stokes
Abstract: Increases license fees and additional bed fees assessed by the Department of Health and
Hospitals (DHH) on healthcare facilities and providers.
Proposed law repeals present law providing that any entity currently operating or planning to operate
an ambulance service shall pay an initial licensing fee, an annual license renewal fee, a delinquent
fee for failure to pay a license fee timely, a delinquent fee for failure to pay a vehicle inspection fee
timely, a change of address fee, and a duplicate license fee.
Proposed law retains present law providing that any entity currently operating or planning to operate
an ambulance service shall pay a vehicle inspection fee.
Proposed law increases the licensure fee provided in present law from $600 to $1,000, payable to
DHH, for the following facilities and providers: Adult day health care facilities; behavioral health
services providers; ambulatory surgery centers; case management providers; home health agencies;
hospices; hospitals; nursing facilities; rural health clinics; intermediate care facilities for individuals
with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IID); end stage renal disease facilities; outpatient abortion facilities;
psychiatric residential treatment facilities; children's respite care centers; pediatric day healthcare
facilities.
Proposed law institutes a licensure fee of $1,000 for the following facilities and providers: Pain
management clinics; therapeutic group homes; crisis receiving centers; adult brain injury facilities;
forensic supervised transitional residential and aftercare facilities; ambulance services; adult
residential care providers; home- and community-based service providers.
Proposed law increases the additional fee per bed provided in present law from $5 to $10, payable
to DHH, for the following facilities and providers: Hospices; hospitals; nursing homes; intermediate
care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IID); behavioral health services
providers; psychiatric residential treatment facilities; children's respite care centers; end stage renal
disease facilities.
Proposed law institutes an additional fee per bed of $10 for the following facilities and providers:
Adult residential care providers; therapeutic group home; forensic supervised transitional residential
and aftercare facility; adult brain injury facilities; crisis receiving centers.
Proposed law exempts state-owned health facilities from fees for applications for and renewal of
licenses. Proposed law makes technical and conforming changes in present law to address the increased fee
amounts provided in proposed law.
(Amends R.S. 28:35(B), R.S. 40:1135.4, 2006(A)(1), (2)(intro. para.), (c), (i), and (k), (B)(1),
(2)(intro. para.), (c), and (d), (C), (E)(1), (2)(intro. para.), (i), and (j), 2120.4(D), 2120.34(F),
2139(A), 2166.5(C), and 2198.13; Adds R.S. 40:2006(A)(2)(r) - (y), (B)(2)(i) - (m), (E)(2)(t) - (x),
and (F); Repeals R.S. 28:34(C) and 36(B) and R.S. 40:2006(A)(2)(e), (E)(2)(e), and 2107(A))