Arkansas Code Title 20, Subtitle 5, Chapter 77, Subchapter 15 - Community-Based Healthcare Access Programs

• § 20-77-1501 - Legislative Findings and Intent.
  (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) The State of Arkansas currently ranks forty-sixth among the fifty (50) states for having the least healthy...
• § 20-77-1502 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter: (1) "Community-based" means based in, located in, or primarily relating to the community of geographically contiguous political subdivisions, as...
• § 20-77-1503 - Program Administration -- Member Agreements.
  (a) A community-based health cooperative shall administer a community-based health care access program in a manner that: (1) Defines the population that may receive...
• § 20-77-1504 - Coordination With Local Health Education Center Programs.
  Whenever feasible, community-based health cooperatives shall participate actively with area health education center programs in developing and implementing recruitment, training, and retention programs directed...
• § 20-77-1505 - Donations by Community-Based Health Cooperatives.
  A community-based health cooperative may make donations for the public welfare or for charitable, scientific, or educational purposes, subject to such limitations, if any,...
• § 20-77-1506 - Program Report.
  (a) In order to demonstrate community-based healthcare access program viability and effectiveness, a community-based health cooperative shall collect data and, upon request, make available...
• § 20-77-1507 - Community-Based Health Cooperatives' Activity Deemed Not to Be Practice of Medicine.
  No community-based health cooperative shall be deemed to be engaged in the corporate practice of medicine.
• § 20-77-1508 - Immunity and Liability.
  No liability on the part of and no cause of action of any nature shall arise against any member of the board of directors...
• § 20-77-1509 - Community-Based Health Cooperative Deemed Not to Be Public Utility or Regulated Industry.
  (a) (1) Community-based health cooperatives shall not be considered or regulated as any type of entity governed by Title 23 of the Arkansas Code....

Last modified: November 15, 2016