Ohio Admin. Code 3701-49-01.1

Current through all regulations passed and filed through December 2, 2024

Section 3701-49-01.1 - Fees for laboratory services (variable fees)

(A) Unless exempted under paragraph (B) or (C) of rule 3701-49-01 of the Administrative Code, the director of health will charge and collect a fee for each parameter or group of parameters in the microbiological, chemical, or radiological analyses of environmental and human samples or the toxicological analysis of body fluid as set forth in this rule.

(1) Radiological testing of environmental samples

Radioactivity	COST
Gross alpha (non-potable water)	$ 35.00
Gross alpha and beta smears (decommissioning projects, etc.)	35.00
Gross alpha (air filter)	100.00
Gross alpha (soil)	100.00
Gross beta (non-potable water)	100.00
Tritium (liquid scintillation counting)	30.00
Gross alpha and beta (milk, soil, sediment, vegetation, etc.)	85.00
Gamma scan (non-potable water, charcoal cartridge, airfilters)	75.00
Gamma scan (milk)	45.00
Gamma scan (soil, sediment, vegetation, fish, meat [boneless samples, not whole animals])	95.00
Radium 226 and Radium 228 (Gamma scan following twenty-one day incubation period)	150.00

(2) Genetic, endocrine and metabolic screening of newborn infants

Newborn screen

$63.46 **

**This fee is in addition to the fee collected pursuant to rule 3701-55-20 of the Administrative Code.

(3) Microbiology testing

(a) General bacteriology unit

Identification/confirmation	$ 30.00 *
Stool-positive	15.00
Stool-negative	12.00
Food screen	50.00
Sero-group-Shigella	10.00
Sero-group- Salmonella	25.00 *
Sero-group-Haemophilus	20.00 *
Sero-group- Neisseria meningitis	20.00 *

(b) Virus isolation unit

Rabies examination	$ 30.00
HIV EIA	6.75
HIV Western Blot	32.50

(c) Special microbiology unit

Botulism	$ 40.00
Legionnaires-cultures	30.00 *
Campylobacter	20.00
Yersinia	20.00

(d) Mycology/parasitology unit

DFA for Giardia and Cryptosporidium	$ 10.00
Stool-parasitology	15.00

(e) Mycobacteriology

Clinical material-mycobacteriology	$ 20.00
Smear-mycobacteriology	7.50
ID-mycobacteriology	27.50 *
Drug sensitivity (mycobac.)	20.00

* exempt for pure cultures

(B) In cases when it is necessary or desirable for the department of health laboratory to perform a test that falls within one of the general categories specified in paragraph (A)(1), (A)(2), or (A)(3) of this rule, but for which no fee has been established by this rule, the director of health may establish and charge a reasonable fee for the test. A fee established under this paragraph will remain in effect for no longer than one hundred eighty days or until a fee is established by rule of the director, whichever occurs first.

Ohio Admin. Code 3701-49-01.1

Effective: 7/1/2023
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates: 2/27/2023 and 05/05/2028
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3701.221
Rule Amplifies: 3701.221, 3701.501
Prior Effective Dates: 10/01/1982, 08/01/1985, 08/08/1991 (Emer.), 10/04/1991, 11/13/1992, 07/12/1993, 01/26/2002, 11/15/2004, 08/30/2006, 03/28/2011, 07/29/2013, 07/01/2016, 06/13/2019