Facility fees
Facility fees
Effective March 1, 2025, the Department began updating and publishing facility fee schedules payable to health-care cash funds consistent with Sections 25-3-105(1)(a)(I)(B.5), 25-27-107(1.7), and 25-27.5-104(1)(g)(II), C.R.S. Each year, the Department will publish an updated fee schedule by March 1 for fees that will become effective on July 1 of the same year.
Between March 1 and June 30, 2026, two fee schedules will be in effect simultaneously. Please use the Fee Transition Period Guidance document to determine which fee schedule applies to your license application.
Fee transition period guidance - 3/1/2026 to 6/30/2026
Below, the department has released the statutorily required health facility fee schedule, which outlines fees that become effective July 1, 2026. The 2026/2027 fees apply to licenses expiring on or after July 1, 2025, as well as to initial applications, change of ownership applications, and change of information applications submitted on or after July 1, 2025.
To accommodate the variety of health facilities and agencies licensed by the Department, the Department has created facility-specific fee schedules in addition to a general schedule that contains the fees that apply to all facility and agency types.
- Ambulatory surgical centers
- Assisted living residences
- Birth centers
- Community clinics
- Community integrated health care services
- Convalescent centers
- Critical access hospitals
- Dialysis treatment clinics
- Freestanding emergency departments
- General hospitals
- Group homes (Community residential homes)
- Home care agencies
- Home care placement agencies
- Hospice
- Intellectual and developmental disabilities service providers
- Licensed hospital units
- Nursing homes
- Psychiatric hospitals
- Rehabilitation hospitals