Arkansas Code Title 20, Subtitle 5, Chapter 77, Subchapter 3 - Third-Party Liability

• § 20-77-301 - Action by Department of Human Services.
  (a) (1) When medical assistance benefits are provided or will be provided to a medical assistance recipient because of injury, disease, disability, or death...
• § 20-77-302 - Action by Recipient Alone -- Reimbursement of Division.
  (a) When an action or claim is brought by a medical assistance recipient or his or her legal representative against a third party who...
• § 20-77-303 - Action by Division and Recipient.
  (a) If an action is prosecuted both by the medical assistance recipient and the division against a third party who is or may be...
• § 20-77-304 - Notice of Action or Claim -- Intervention or Consolidation.
  (a) (1) If either the medical assistance recipient or the appropriate division brings an action or claim against a third party, the recipient or...
• § 20-77-305 - Notice to Department of Human Services of Award or Settlement by Recipient Required.
  (a) A judgment, an award, or a settlement in any action or claim by a medical assistance recipient to recover damages for injuries, disease,...
• § 20-77-306 - Liability of Third Parties to Department of Human Services.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Health insurer" means a commercial insurance company offering health or casualty insurance to individuals or groups including...
• § 20-77-307 - Assignment to Department of Human Services of Rights of Recovery.
  (a) As a condition of eligibility, every Medicaid applicant shall automatically assign his or her right to any settlement, judgment, or award which may...
• § 20-77-308 - Release of Information to Department of Human Services.
  All recipients of medical assistance under the Medicaid program shall be deemed to have authorized all third parties including, but not limited to, insurance...
• § 20-77-309 - Denial or Reduction of Benefits -- Insurance Policies.
  No policy of accident or illness insurance issued or renewed after July 1, 1981, shall contain any provision denying or reducing benefits because services...
• § 20-77-310 - Denial or Reduction of Benefits -- Service Plan Corporation Contracts.
  After July 1, 1981, no service plan corporation shall deliver, issue for delivery, or renew any subscriber's contract which contains any provision denying or...
• § 20-77-311 - Denial or Reduction of Benefits -- Healthcare Providers.
  After July 1, 1981, no association authorized to do business in this state which provides or pays for any healthcare benefits shall issue any...
• § 20-77-312 - Denial or Reduction of Benefits -- Provisions Not Applicable to Medicaid.
  General exclusion or reduction provisions relating to benefits paid by or eligibility under governmental programs, whether state or federal, shall not be construed to...
• § 20-77-313 - Billing Statements.
  Billing statements forwarded to recipients of medical assistance by vendors of medical care shall clearly state that reimbursement from the Medicaid program is contemplated.
• § 20-77-314 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter: (1) "Action" or "claim" means a complaint, demand letter, or any other notification given to a third party by...
• § 20-77-315 - Distribution of Proceeds From a Third-Party Settlement, Judgment, or Award or From Other Third-Party Payment.
  (a) The Department of Human Services is entitled to reimbursement for past medical assistance payments from that portion of a third-party settlement, judgment, or...

Last modified: November 15, 2016