Section 127280 Of Chapter 1. Health Planning From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 107. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 1.
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. (a) Every health facility licensed pursuant to Chapter 2
(commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2, except a health
facility owned and operated by the state, shall each year be charged
a fee established by the office consistent with the requirements of
this section.
(b) Commencing in calendar year 2004, every freestanding
ambulatory surgery clinic as defined in Section 128700, shall each
year be charged a fee established by the office consistent with the
requirements of this section.
(c) The fee structure shall be established each year by the office
to produce revenues equal to the appropriation made in the annual
Budget Act or another statute to pay for the functions required to be
performed by the office pursuant to this chapter, Article 2
(commencing with Section 127340) of Chapter 2, or Chapter 1
(commencing with Section 128675) of Part 5, and to pay for any other
health-related programs administered by the office. The fee shall be
due on July 1 and delinquent on July 31 of each year.
(d) The fee for a health facility that is not a hospital, as
defined in subdivision (c) of Section 128700, shall be not more than
0.035 percent of the gross operating cost of the facility for the
provision of health care services for its last fiscal year that ended
on or before June 30 of the preceding calendar year.
(e) The fee for a hospital, as defined in subdivision (c) of
Section 128700, shall be not more than 0.035 percent of the gross
operating cost of the facility for the provision of health care
services for its last fiscal year that ended on or before June 30 of
the preceding calendar year.
(f) (1) The fee for a freestanding ambulatory surgery clinic shall
be established at an amount equal to the number of ambulatory
surgery data records submitted to the office pursuant to Section
128737 for encounters in the preceding calendar year multiplied by
not more than fifty cents ($0.50).
(2) (A) For the calendar year 2004 only, a freestanding ambulatory
surgery clinic shall estimate the number of records it will file
pursuant to Section 128737 for the calendar year 2004 and shall
report that number to the office by March 12, 2004. The estimate
shall be as accurate as possible. The fee in the calendar year 2004
shall be established initially at an amount equal to the estimated
number of records reported multiplied by fifty cents ($0.50) and
shall be due on July 1 and delinquent on July 31, 2004.
(B) The office shall compare the actual number of records filed by
each freestanding clinic for the calendar year 2004 pursuant to
Section 128737 with the estimated number of records reported pursuant
to subparagraph (A). If the actual number reported is less than the
estimated number reported, the office shall reduce the fee of the
clinic for calendar year 2005 by the amount of the difference
multiplied by fifty cents ($0.50). If the actual number reported
exceeds the estimated number reported, the office shall increase the
fee of the clinic for calendar year 2005 by the amount of the
difference multiplied by fifty cents ($0.50) unless the actual number
reported is greater than 120 percent of the estimated number
reported, in which case the office shall increase the fee of the
clinic for calendar year 2005 by the amount of the difference, up to
and including 120 percent of the estimated number, multiplied by
fifty cents ($0.50), and by the amount of the difference in excess of
120 percent of the estimated number multiplied by one dollar ($1).
(g) There is hereby established the California Health Data and
Planning Fund within the office for the purpose of receiving and
expending fee revenues collected pursuant to this chapter.
(h) Any amounts raised by the collection of the special fees
provided for by subdivisions (d), (e), and (f) that are not required
to meet appropriations in the Budget Act for the current fiscal year
shall remain in the California Health Data and Planning Fund and
shall be available to the office in succeeding years when
appropriated by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another
statute, for expenditure under the provisions of this chapter,
Article 2 (commencing with Section 127340) of Chapter 2, and Chapter
1 (commencing with Section 128675) of Part 5, or for any other
health-related programs administered by the office, and shall reduce
the amount of the special fees that the office is authorized to
establish and charge.
(i) (1) No health facility liable for the payment of fees required
by this section shall be issued a license or have an existing
license renewed unless the fees are paid. A new, previously
unlicensed, health facility shall be charged a pro rata fee to be
established by the office during the first year of operation.
(2) The license of any health facility, against which the fees
required by this section are charged, shall be revoked, after notice
and hearing, if it is determined by the office that the fees required
were not paid within the time prescribed by subdivision (c).
(j) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2002.