Arkansas Code Title 20, Subtitle 5, Chapter 77, Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• § 20-77-101 - Cost-Sharing Charges for Medically Indigent -- Legislative Intent.
  (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that the Medicaid medical assistance program administered by the Department of Human Services is intended...
• § 20-77-102 - Program for Long-Term Care Facility Care.
  (a) The appropriate division of the Department of Human Services is authorized to establish a program to provide for long-term care facility care for...
• § 20-77-103 - Compacts With Certain Out-Of-state Hospitals.
  (a) The Governor is authorized to enter into compacts or agreements with one (1) or more public-supported hospitals located within a reasonable distance from...
• § 20-77-104 - Double Billing -- Legislative Intent.
  (a) It is the specific intent of this section and § 20-77-105 to prohibit any provider of medical services who participates in the Arkansas...
• § 20-77-105 - Double Billing -- Suspension of Medical Services Provider From Arkansas Medicaid Program.
  (a) Any provider of medical services which shall be determined by the administrator of the single state agency for Medicaid to purposely engage in...
• § 20-77-106 - Medical Services Program for Medicaid-Eligible Patients of Arkansas Children's Hospital.
  (a) The Arkansas Children's Hospital, as recognized by § 20-78-102, is authorized to enter into agreements with the appropriate division of the Department of...
• § 20-77-107 - Program for Indigent Medical Care -- Rules and Regulations.
  (a) (1) The appropriate division of the Department of Human Services is authorized to establish and maintain an indigent medical care program. (2) However,...
• § 20-77-108 - Furnishing of Annual Audit by Nonprofit Medicaid Providers.
  (a) Every nonprofit corporation, except those licensed under § 20-9-201 et seq., which is eligible to receive payments of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or...
• § 20-77-109 - Medicaid Assistance for Children -- Effect on Child Support.
  (a) By accepting Medicaid assistance for or on behalf of a child, the recipient thereof shall be deemed to have assigned to the Office...
• § 20-77-110 - Increase in Reimbursement Rate.
  Notwithstanding any other provision in federal law or departmental commitment which may exist to the contrary, the Department of Human Services shall not increase...
• § 20-77-111 - Data Reports.
  (a) The Director of the Department of Human Services shall cause to be prepared a compilation of data on the Arkansas Medicaid Program.(b) (1)...
• § 20-77-112 -- 20-77-114 - [Repealed.]
• § 20-77-115 - Personal Care Reimbursement Rates.
  Personal care reimbursement rates shall be established at twelve dollars and thirty-five cents ($12.35) per unit or at lesser amounts as may be established...
• § 20-77-116 -- 20-77-118 - [Repealed.]
• § 20-77-119 - Finding -- Resource Eligibility Limit.
  (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) The income of many elderly Arkansans slightly exceeds the Medicaid eligibility level; (2) Without adequate health care,...
• § 20-77-120 - Medicaid Waiver for Home and Community-Based Care.
  (a) In determining Medicaid eligibility for and providing Medicaid benefits to persons eligible for services through the ElderChoices care program, a home and community-based...
• § 20-77-121 - Adverse Decisions -- Notice -- Rights.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Adverse action" means the denial, termination, suspension, or reduction of Medicaid eligibility or covered services; (2) "Beneficiary"...
• § 20-77-122 - Survey Agency for Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities of Children.
  (a) To the extent required by federal law, the Division of Medical Services of the Department of Human Services shall designate a survey agency...
• § 20-77-123 - Drugs for Asthma and Other Respiratory Diseases.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Drug Review Committee" means physicians and pharmacists who perform unbiased reviews of drugs to determine which drugs...
• § 20-77-124 - Medicaid Waiver for Autism.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Autism spectrum disorder" means a neurobiological condition that causes significant communication, social, and behavioral challenges that is...
• § 20-77-125 - Contingency Fee Audits Prohibited.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Healthcare provider" means a person enrolled to provide health or medical care services or goods authorized under...
• § 20-77-126 - Relation to Arkansas Pharmacy Audit Bill of Rights.
  (a) From and after the date that a state plan amendment submitted under § 20-77-125 is approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
• § 20-77-127 - Eligibility for Long-Term Care.
  (a) The eligibility determination regarding every applicant for long-term care nursing facility placement shall be made according to the criteria exactly as set forth...
• § 20-77-128 - In-Home Caregiver Drug Tests and Criminal Background Checks.
  (a) As used in this section, "caregiver" means an individual who has responsibility for the protection, in-home care, or custody of a Medicaid enrollee...
• § 20-77-129 - Ambulatory Surgery Centers -- Medicaid Reimbursement.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Ambulatory surgery center" means an entity certified by Medicare as an ambulatory surgical center that operates for...
• § 20-77-130 - Medicaid Provider Tax Returns.
  (a) As used in this section, "affected Medicaid entity" means an individual or entity that: (1) Provides and is directly reimbursed by Medicaid for...
• § 20-77-131 - Determination that a Medicaid Provider is Out of Business.
  (a) As used in this section, "entity" means: (1) A corporation, including without limitation a professional, medical, or dental corporation; (2) A limited liability...

Last modified: November 15, 2016