The State Board of Health is hereby authorized to charge and collect a reasonable fee or charge for services rendered by salaried employees of the State or County Board of Health or State or County Health Department in home health service programs administered by those agencies.

The State Board of Health shall fix a reasonable schedule of fees to be charged and collected from, or on behalf of, persons receiving home health services, and the amount of such fees shall include charges for personal services of the said employee and the expense attendant upon such services, such as the expense of necessary drugs, medicines, supplies and equipment.

The State Board of Health, on recommendation of the county health officer, may waive all, or any part of, the payment of said fees upon a finding satisfactory to said board that the person obligated to pay is medically indigent.

Such fees when collected shall be paid into a special fund in the State Treasury to be called the Home Health Service Fund.

All of the receipts of said Home Health Service Fund are hereby appropriated annually to the State Board of Health to be allocated and expended by said board in each of those counties respectively from which said receipts were collected and for the purpose of administering and operating a program of home health services.

The State Board of Health is authorized to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations prescribing the home health services which may be performed and other rules necessary or proper for the operation of this chapter.