Facility fees prohibition for nonemergency services provided at provider-based clinics

SF 1503 prohibits health care providers from charging facility fees - extra charges for administrative costs like building or billing expenses - on nonemergency services at off-campus clinics owned by hospitals (provider-based clinics) and for specific services like outpatient evaluations. Hospitals must report on any facility fees they charged, including patient counts and amounts collected, starting in 2027, and publish this data online. The health commissioner can expand the ban to cover additional services deemed safe to provide outside hospitals. This law directly affects patients receiving nonemergency care at these clinics and hospitals that previously collected such fees.