PERMANENT RULES
Date of Adoption: September 10, 2001.
Purpose: Increases the licensing fees for acute care hospitals, from $63.50 per bed to $81.65 per bed.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 246-320-990.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 70.41.100, 43.20B.110, and 43.70.250.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 01-16-150 on August 1, 2001.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0;
Pilot Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0;
or Other Alternative Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0.
Effective Date of Rule:
Thirty-one days after filing.
October 3, 2001
M. C. Selecky
Secretary
OTS-5022.1
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 99-24-096, filed 11/30/99,
effective 12/31/99)
WAC 246-320-990
Fees.
Hospitals licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW shall:
(1) Submit an annual license fee of ((sixty-three))
eighty-one dollars and ((fifty)) sixty-five cents for each bed
space within the licensed bed capacity of the hospital to the
department;
(2) Include all bed spaces in rooms complying with physical plant and movable equipment requirements of this chapter for twenty-four-hour assigned patient rooms;
(3) Include neonatal intensive care bassinet spaces;
(4) Include bed spaces assigned for less than twenty-four-hour patient use as part of the licensed bed capacity when:
(a) Physical plant requirements of this chapter are met without movable equipment; and
(b) The hospital currently possesses the required movable equipment and certifies this fact to the department;
(5) Exclude all normal infant bassinets;
(6) Limit licensed bed spaces as required under chapter 70.38 RCW;
(7) Submit an application for bed additions to the department for review and approval under chapter 70.38 RCW subsequent to department establishment of the hospital licensed bed capacity; and
(8) Set up twenty-four-hour assigned patient beds only within the licensed bed capacity approved by the department.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 70.41.100, 43.20B.110 and 43.70.250. 99-24-096, 246-320-990, filed 11/30/99, effective 12/31/99. Statutory Authority: RCW 70.41.030 and 43.70.040. 99-04-052, 246-320-990, filed 1/28/99, effective 3/10/99.]