1. (a) Pursuant to RSA 265-A:40, IV, persons receiving services from an impaired driver care management program and from education or treatment programs included in the service plan shall be responsible for the fees assessed by such programs.

2. (b) IDCMPs shall charge a client no more than the following amounts:

   1. (1) A $100 fee for an intake or screening, which shall be valid for 6 months from the date of the completed intake or screening. If the client is not in compliance with a service plan or has not completed a requested evaluation from the date of the initial screening, a new intake shall be conducted at the client’s expense;
   2. (2) A $275 fee for a substance use disorder evaluation, which shall be valid for 6 months from the date of the evaluation. If the client does not start treatment within that 6 month period, the client will be subject to a new evaluation at the client’s expense, if the client is not in compliance with their service plan;
   3. (3) A $80 monthly or $20 weekly administrative fee for case management services, which shall be in place from the date the service plan was developed with the client. The administrative fee and services shall continue until the client is deemed completed by the IDCMP, or until a notice or non-compliance is sent to the client;
   4. (4) A $400 fee for an IDEP, including all course materials;
   5. (5) A $650 fee for an in-person, overnight, weekend education program, including all course materials and room and board;
   6. (6) A $70 per client fee, which shall be the fee required by RSA 265-A:39, III(g), and RSA 265-A:40, VII(g), to be paid to the department by the client via money order and collected by the IDCMP at intake;
   7. (7) A $130 fee for each day that an IDCMP staff is required to attend a sentencing court proceeding as a result of a notice of non-compliance being sent in accordance with He-A 507.05(i) and (k);
   8. (8) An amount equal to the cost for the IDCMP to provide any drug or alcohol testing services to individual clients;

   9. (9) For individuals who choose to receive all services outside of New Hampshire, in accordance with He-A 506.01:

      1. a. An out-of-state client fee of $350 which shall be paid by clients who receive all evaluation, treatment, and educational services out-of-state, to cover the cost of intake or registration, service plan development and monitoring, as applicable, electronic data systems requirements, verification or out-of-state education and clinical requirements, and completion reporting, as applicable; and
      2. b. The per client fee in (6) above shall not be paid by clients who receive all services out-of-state;
   10. (10) The amount of the fees charged by a financial institution for every payment made by a client by credit card, for services described in (b)(1) through (b)(9); and

   11. (11) No-show fees for missed IDCMP appointments which shall:

       1. a. Be set by the IDCMP;
       2. b. Be no more than the cost of the appointment; and
       3. c. Not apply to clients who are less than 15 minutes late to an appointment, or clients attending IDEP, who are subject to He-A 507.07(a)-(e).

3. (c) Programs shall notify clients of the following, in writing, prior to services being rendered:

   1. (1) What acceptable forms of payments are allowed to pay for services rendered; and
   2. (2) What applicable transaction fees are associated with each form of payment for any fee described in He-A 500.

4. (d) IDCMPs shall not charge or collect from a client a fee:

   1. (1) For any drug or alcohol testing required by the service plan. Such fees shall be paid by the client directly to the testing site;
   2. (2) For any fee that is being paid for by a publicly funded program or by insurance; and
   3. (3) If an IDCMP, during the course of case management services, assists client in acquiring third party services, such as psychiatric or peer support. Clients shall be responsible for any fees associated with these services and billing shall not occur via the IDCMP.

Source. #10240, eff 1-1-13; ss by #10438, INTERIM, eff 10-10-13; ss by #10564, eff 4-8-14; ss by #13742, EMERGENCY RULE, eff 10-24-22, EXPIRED: 4-23-23, reverted back to #10564; ss by #13846, eff 1-6-24, EXPIRES: 1-6-34