Wisconsin’s physician assistant rule, PA 2.01, requires payment of “the fee determined by the department under s. 448.07(2), Stats.” It does not state an amount.
What that structure means
The legislature delegated fee-setting to the Department of Safety and Professional Services rather than fixing amounts in statute or rule. The department publishes a schedule and can revise it administratively.
It is a deliberate design with real advantages: fees can track actual costs without a rulemaking cycle. The trade-off is that the amount is not in the law, so you cannot cite it from primary sources the way you can Minnesota’s statutory fees or Florida’s administrative code.
The pattern across states
Wisconsin is not alone. Arkansas’s rule refers to “the required fee ... as delineated elsewhere.” Arizona’s board publishes no PA fee amounts on its licensure pages. Georgia maintains a schedule it revises outside rulemaking.
Roughly speaking, states set fees in one of three places: statute (rare, stable, slow to change), administrative code (common, verifiable), or department schedule (flexible, hard to cite). Knowing which applies tells you how much to trust a published figure and how recently to re-check it.
Practical handling
Confirm with DSPS directly before filing. Treat any third-party figure as a starting point rather than a quote — aggregator sites publish confident per-state numbers that we have found wrong by several multiples.
Compact position
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