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separate subunit or branch that the home health agency includes in the home health agency’s license;
(6) for a hospice agency, fees as follows:
(A) for a parent hospice agency and each agency that operates as a subunit under a parent hospital agency, fees as follows:
(i)a volunteer hospice that primarily provides hospice…#
(i) a volunteer hospice that primarily provides hospice services where a client lives or stays: $100;
(ii)a non-volunteer hospice that primarily provides hospice…#
(ii) a non-volunteer hospice that primarily provides hospice services where a client lives or stays: $250;
(iii) an inpatient hospice facility: $250, plus $75 per bed;
(B) in addition to the applicable fee under (A) of this paragraph, $100 for each separate subunit that the parent hospice agency includes in the parent hospice agency’s license;
(7) for a frontier extended stay clinic: $250, plus $100 for each bed used for extended stay patients. (b) The department may extend, without charging a fee, a provisional license for one additional period not to exceed one year under AS 47.32.050(a). (c) Before the department issues a facility a biennial license under AS 47.32.050(b), or before the department renews a biennial license under AS 47.32.060(a), the facility must pay the following fees:
(1) for a hospital: $4,000, plus $170 per bed;
(2) for a nursing facility within the meaning given in AS 47.32.900: $2,000, plus $250 per bed;
(3) for an ambulatory surgical center, including an ambulatory surgical facility: $1,300;
(4) for a free-standing birth center: $500;
(5) for a home health agency within the meaning given in AS 47.32.900, fees as follows:
(A) a fee based on total employee full-time equivalents (FTEs) to include any full-time equivalents at any subunit or branch, as follows:
(i) five or fewer full-time equivalents: $2,000;
(ii) six to 15 full-time equivalents: $3,000;
(iii) 16 to 50 full-time equivalents: $4,000;
(iv) 51 or more full-time equivalents: $6,000;
(B) in addition to the applicable fee under (A) of this paragraph, $1,000 for each