50.13 Fees permitted for a workshop or seminar. If the department develops and provides a workshop or seminar relating to the provision of service by facilities, adult family homes or residential care apartment complexes under this subchapter, the department may establish a fee for each workshop or seminar and impose the fee on registrants for the workshop or seminar. A fee so established and imposed shall be in an amount sufficient to reimburse the department for the costs directly associated with developing and providing the workshop or seminar. History: 1985 a. 120; 1997 a. 27.
50.135 Licensing and approval fees for inpatient health care facilities. (1) DEFINITION. In this section, “inpatient health care facility” means any hospital, nursing home, county home, county mental hospital or other place licensed or approved by the department under ss. 49.70, 49.71, 49.72, 50.02, 50.03, 50.35, 51.08 and 51.09, but does not include communitybased residential facilities. (2) FEES. (a) The annual fee for any inpatient health care facility except a nursing home is $18 per bed, based on the number of beds for which the facility is licensed. The annual fee for any nursing home is $6 per bed, based on the number of beds for which the nursing home is licensed. This fee shall be paid to the department on or before October 1 for the ensuing year. Each new inpatient health care facility shall pay this fee no later than 30 days before it opens. (b) Any inpatient health care facility that fails to pay its fee on or before the date specified in par. (a) shall pay an additional fee of $10 per day for every day after the deadline. (c) The fees collected under par. (a) shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (6) (jm) for licensing, review and certifying activities. (3) EXEMPTION. The inpatient health care facilities under ss. 45.50, 48.62, 51.05, 51.06, 233.40, 233.41, 233.42 and 252.10 are exempt from this section. History: 1983 a. 27, 192; 1985 a. 29; 1987 a. 27; 1993 a. 16; 1993 a. 27 s. 257; Stats. 1993 s. 50.135; 1995 a. 27; 1997 a. 27, 35; 1999 a. 9; 2005 a. 22, 25. Sub. (1) requires that all of the specifically enumerated facilities must be places licensed or approved by the Department of Health and Family Services. A VA hospital is not within the definition of inpatient health care facility as it is subject to federal regulation and is not licensed or regulated by the state. State v. Powers, 2004 WI App 156, 276 Wis. 2d 107, 687 N.W.2d 50, 03-1514.
50.14 Assessments on licensed beds. (1) In this section: (a) Notwithstanding s. 50.01 (1m), “facility” means a nursing home or an intermediate care facility for persons with an intellectual disability that is not located outside the state. (b) “Intermediate care facility for persons with an intellectual disability” has the meaning given for “intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded” under 42 USC 1396d (d). (2) For the privilege of doing business in this state, there is imposed on all licensed beds of a facility an assessment in the following amount per calendar month per licensed bed of the facility: (am) For nursing homes, an amount not to exceed $150 in state fiscal year 2009-10, and, beginning in state fiscal year 201011, an amount not to exceed $170.
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(bm) For intermediate care facilities for persons with an intellectual disability, $910. (2g) The assessment moneys collected under this section shall be deposited in the Medical Assistance trust fund. (2r) In determining the number of licensed beds, all of the following apply: (a) If the amount of the beds is other than a whole number, the fractional part of the amount shall be disregarded unless it equals 50 percent or more of a whole number, in which case the amount shall be increased to the next whole number. (b) The number of licensed beds of a nursing home includes any number of beds that have been delicensed under s. 49.45 (6m) (ap) 1. but not deducted from the nursing home’s licensed bed capacity under s. 49.45 (6m) (ap) 4. a. (3) By the end of each month, each facility shall submit to the department the amount due under sub. (2) for each licensed bed of the facility for the month preceding the month during which the payment is being submitted. The department shall verify the number of beds licensed and, if necessary, make adjustments to the payment, notify the facility of changes in the payment owing and send the facility an invoice for the additional amount due or send the facility a refund. (4) Sections 77.59 (1) to (5m), (6) (intro.), (a) and (c) and (7) to (10), 77.60 (1) to (7), (9) and (10), 77.61 (9) and (12) to (14) and 77.62, as they apply to the taxes under subch. III of ch. 77, apply to the assessment under this section, except that the amount of any assessment collected under s. 77.59 (7) in a fiscal year shall be deposited in the Medical Assistance trust fund. (5) (a) The department shall levy, enforce and collect the assessment under this section and shall develop and distribute forms necessary for levying and collection. (b) The department shall promulgate rules that establish procedures and requirements for levying the assessment under this section. (6) (a) An affected facility may contest an action by the department under this section by submitting a written request for a hearing to the department within 30 days after the date of the department’s action. (b) Any order or determination made by the department under a hearing as specified in par. (a) is subject to judicial review as prescribed under ch. 227. History: 1991 a. 269; 1993 a. 16; 1995 a. 27; 1997 a. 114; 2003 a. 33; 2005 a. 25, 49; 2007 a. 20, 95, 97, 153; 2009 a. 28, 180; 2011 a. 126; 2013 a. 20. Cross-reference: See also ch. DHS 15, Wis. adm. code.
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