2006 Alabama Code - Section 22-21-271.1 — Certificates of need - Fee increases.

(a) Each application for a certificate of need shall be accompanied by a fee of one percent of the estimated cost of the proposed cost of the new Institutional Health Service, or a maximum of $12,000.00 (indexed) per application. Provided, that the application fee shall be one half of one percent of the estimated cost of the proposed cost of the new Institutional Health Service, or a maximum of $4,000.00 if the applicant has had an average daily census comprised of 50 percent or more medicaid patients within the last year prior to the filing of the application and a maximum of $2,000.00 if a rural hospital applicant has had an average daily census comprised of 30 percent or more Medicaid/Medicare patients within the last year prior to the filing of the application. The minimum fee shall be set by the SHPDA. Fees shall be used for the purpose of defraying the lawful operating expense of the certificate of need program conducted by the SHPDA and of the Statewide Health Coordinating Council.

(b) Each request for an opinion from the state agency as to whether a project is subject to review under this article shall be accompanied by a fee to be established by the SHPDA.

(c) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from the General Fund of the State of Alabama such amounts as may be necessary from time to time to defray the costs of administering this article over and above such fees as may be collected under this section.

(d) Application fees collected under this article shall not be refundable. Fees collected under this article are hereby appropriated for the purposes stated in this article.

(e) All fees collected under this article shall be retained in a separate fund for the purpose of enforcing and administering this article, and shall be disbursed as other funds of the state are disbursed.

(Acts 1977, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 82, p. 1509, §16; Acts 1982, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 82-770, p. 249, §11; Acts 1986, Ex. Sess., No. 86-688, p. 86; Acts 1990, No. 90-468, §1.)

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