Section 34-12-6 - Amount of license fee--Disposition.
34-12-6. Amount of license fee--Disposition. Any application for a license to operate a health care facility shall be accompanied by a fee. The annual license fee established for each licensure category of health care facilities shall be as follows:
(1) Nursing facility:
(a) Fifty beds or less, six hundred dollars;
(b) Fifty-one to one hundred beds, inclusive, nine hundred dollars;
(c) One hundred one to one hundred fifty beds, inclusive, one thousand two hundred dollars;
(d) One hundred fifty-one or more beds, one thousand five hundred dollars;
(2) Assisted living center:
(a) Sixteen beds or less, one hundred fifty dollars;
(b) Seventeen to fifty beds, inclusive, three hundred dollars;
(c) Fifty-one to one hundred beds, inclusive, four hundred fifty dollars;
(d) One hundred one or more beds, six hundred dollars;
(3) Hospital:
(a) Twenty-five beds or less, one thousand dollars;
(b) Twenty-six to fifty beds, inclusive, one thousand five hundred dollars;
(c) Fifty-one to one hundred beds, inclusive, two thousand dollars;
(d) One hundred one to one hundred fifty beds, inclusive, three thousand dollars;
(e) One hundred fifty-one to two hundred beds, inclusive, four thousand dollars;
(f) Two hundred one or more beds, five thousand dollars;
(4) Ambulatory surgery center, five hundred dollars;
(5) Chemical dependency treatment facility:
(a) Sixteen beds or less, one hundred fifty dollars;
(b) Seventeen to fifty beds, inclusive, three hundred dollars;
(c) Fifty-one or more beds, four hundred fifty dollars;
(6) Inpatient and residential hospice, two hundred dollars.
No such fee may be refunded. All fees received by the State Department of Health under the provisions of this chapter shall be paid into the general fund.
Source: SL 1945, ch 108, § 4; SL 1947, ch 128; SL 1953, ch 123, § 4; SDC Supp 1960, § 27.1204; SL 1986, ch 278, § 5; SL 1987, ch 252; SL 2009, ch 164, § 1.