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AR Code § 20-9-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 3 - Hospitals, Clinics, Etc. — Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 20-9-305. Annual reports — Nonprofit hospitals

 (a)  (1) Any nonprofit hospital association or corporation organized under the laws of this state that operates and maintains a hospital facility in this state primarily for providing hospital services for the employees of any corporation or company engaged in interstate commerce shall file annually with the Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration a detailed report of income, fees, charges, and contributions from all sources received by it during the year, together with the expenses and disbursements of the corporation or association during the year.  (2) The report shall be filed on or before April 1 in each year.  (3) A copy of the report shall be furnished to each member of the hospital association or corporation upon the request of any member.    (b) Any nonprofit hospital association or corporation failing or refusing to file the report as required in subsection (a) of this section or which fails or refuses to furnish any member a copy of the report or statement upon request shall be guilty of a violation and shall be subject to a fine of ten dollars ($10.00) for each day that the violation continues.  (c)  (1) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any nonprofit hospital association or corporation that operates and maintains a hospital facility in any county of this state having a population of not less than twenty-five thousand six hundred (25,600) nor more than twenty-five thousand seven hundred (25,700), according to the 1970 Federal Decennial Census.  (2) The provisions of this section shall not be applicable with respect to any nonprofit hospital associations or corporations that operate and maintain a hospital facility in any county of this state having a population of not less than forty-seven thousand (47,000) nor more than fifty thousand (50,000), according to the 1970 Federal Decennial Census.
AR Code § 20-9-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 3 - Hospitals, Clinics, Etc. — Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 20-9-306. Annual reports — Public-supported hospitals

 (a) All public-supported hospitals in the State of Arkansas shall publish an annual report including financial statements showing profits, expenditures, and operating costs.  (b) Every such hospital shall publish its annual report in a newspaper of general circulation within the county where it is located.
AR Code § 20-9-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 3 - Hospitals, Clinics, Etc. — Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 20-9-307. Itemized statement for services, drugs, and supplies

 (a)  (1) Upon the patient's request at the time of discharge of each patient or at the time of billing the patient or the insurance company for the patient or at the time of billing the patient or the insurance company for the hospital services, drugs, and supplies, each hospital in the state, except those operated by the State of Arkansas, shall furnish to the patient and to the insurance company an itemized listing of all services, drugs, and supplies to be billed to that person while a patient in the hospital.  (2) The itemized statement shall be furnished to the patient and the insurance company no later than thirty (30) days after discharge of the patient.  (3) In addition, at the time of discharge each patient discharged from a hospital in this state shall be advised in writing of his or her right to receive the itemized statement for services, drugs, and supplies required by this section.  (4) The State Board of Health shall adopt rules specifying the items to be included and the manner in which they shall be presented on itemized statements as required in this section.    (b) The administrator or the agent of any hospital who fails or refuses to provide the itemized statement upon request as required in this section or fails or refuses at the time of discharge of any patient to advise the patient of his or her right to receive the itemized statement provided in this section shall be guilty of a violation and upon conviction shall be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one hundred fifty dollars ($150) for each violation.
AR Code § 20-9-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 3 - Hospitals, Clinics, Etc. — Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 20-9-308. Advice by hospital employees to reviewing committees

 When requested, any physician, surgeon, hospital administrator, nurse, technologist, and any other person engaged in work in or about a licensed hospital and having any information or knowledge relating to the medical and hospital care provided in the hospital or to the efficient use of the hospital facilities shall be obligated to advise committees reviewing such matters with respect to all the facts or information possessed by the individual with reference to such care or use.
AR Code § 20-9-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 3 - Hospitals, Clinics, Etc. — Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 20-9-309. Emergency Medical Care Act — Definitions

 (a) This section may be cited as the “Emergency Medical Care Act”.  (b) Because of the need for rapid assessment and care, in order to protect the life and health of the people of Arkansas during a medical emergency, it is found and declared necessary:  (1) To establish a definition for emergency medical care;  (2) To ensure that emergency medical care is provided in a timely manner by licensed and qualified personnel at a hospital's emergency department; and  (3) To ensure that emergency medical care is not delayed or denied based on:  (A) A person's ability to pay for expenses incurred during a medical emergency; or  (B) Prospective authorization of treatment by an insurance company, health maintenance organization, hospital medical service corporation, health benefit plan, or any other insurer.      (c) As used in this section:  (1) “Emergency medical care” means healthcare services provided in a hospital emergency facility to evaluate and treat medical conditions of a recent onset and severity, including, but not limited to, severe pain that would lead a prudent lay person, possessing an average knowledge of medicine and health, to believe that his or her condition, sickness, or injury is of such a nature that failure to get immediate medical care could result in:  (A) Placing the patient's health in serious jeopardy;  (B) Serious impairment to bodily functions; or  (C) Serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part;    (2) “Emergency medical provider” means a hospital licensed by the Department of Health, hospital-based services or a physician licensed by the Arkansas State Medical Board who provides emergency medical care; and  (3) “Prospective authorization” means contacting any insurer, health maintenance organization, hospital medical service corporation, or health benefit plan that is not physically present in the hospital's emergency department at the time the patient presents for emergency medical care for approval or authorization to evaluate and treat the patient.    (d)  (1) Once a person qualifying for emergency medical care presents to an emergency department, that person shall be evaluated by medical personnel. This evaluation may include diagnostic testing to assess the extent of the condition, sickness, or injury and radiographic procedures and interpretations by a radiologist.  (2) Appropriate intervention may be initiated by medical personnel to stabilize any condition presenting under this section before receiving authorization for the treatment by an insurer, health maintenance organization, hospital medical service corporation, or health benefit plan.
AR Code § 20-9-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 3 - Hospitals, Clinics, Etc. — Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 20-9-310. No liability for furnishing medical records or accessing information pursuant to subpoena or other legal obligation or authority

 Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, no person or medical facility serving as a custodian of health or medical records shall be subject to any civil or criminal liability for:   (1) Providing access to or producing copies of the records pursuant to a subpoena issued by any board, agency, commission, prosecuting attorney, or grand jury;  (2) Providing access to or producing a copy of the health or medical records requested by a clerk of a court, the Division of Correction, the Division of Community Correction, the Arkansas State Hospital, the Department of Health, the Department of Human Services, or a local law enforcement agency under the Sex Offender Registration Act of 1997, § 12-12-901 et seq.; or  (3) Requesting or accessing information under § 17-80-116.
AR Code § 20-9-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 4 - Freestanding Birthing Centers|§ 20-9-401. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Freestanding birthing center” means any facility, institution, or place, which is not an ambulatory surgical center or a hospital or in a hospital, organized to provide family-centered maternity care for women and childbearing families in which births are planned to occur in a homelike atmosphere away from the mothers' usual residences following a low-risk pregnancy; and  (2) “Low-risk pregnancy” means a normal uncomplicated pregnancy as determined by a generally accepted course of prenatal care and expectation of a normal uncomplicated birth as defined by reasonable and generally accepted criteria of maternal and fetal health.
AR Code § 20-9-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 4 - Freestanding Birthing Centers|§ 20-9-402. Deliveries — Dismissal of mother and infant

 (a) A freestanding birthing center shall have a qualified medical director, and deliveries shall be performed by a qualified physician or by a certified nurse midwife in accordance with an arrangement with a physician as required by § 17-87-101 et seq.  (b) A mother and her infant shall be dismissed from a freestanding birthing center within twenty-four (24) hours of the admission.
AR Code § 20-9-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 4 - Freestanding Birthing Centers|§ 20-9-403. Regulation by Department of Health

 (a) The Department of Health shall establish and enforce rules:  (1) Setting minimum standards for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a freestanding birthing center; and  (2) Setting qualifications for medical directors of freestanding birthing centers and for physicians who will perform deliveries in freestanding birthing centers.    (b) A freestanding birthing center shall meet life safety code and construction standards developed by the National Fire Protection Association and shall comply with rules developed by the department.
AR Code § 20-9-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 4 - Freestanding Birthing Centers|§ 20-9-404. License fee

 The Department of Health may levy and collect a fee for the issuance of an annual license to a freestanding birthing center. The license fee for a freestanding birthing center shall be an annual fee of one thousand dollars ($1,000).
AR Code § 20-9-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 4 - Freestanding Birthing Centers|§ 20-9-405. Practice of midwifery

 Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to prohibit the lawful practice of lay midwifery in any location under the Licensed Lay Midwife Act, § 17-85-101 et seq.
AR Code § 20-9-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 5 - Peer Review Committees|§ 20-9-501. Definition

 As used in this subchapter, “peer review committee” or “committee” means a committee of a hospital medical staff, a committee of a state or local professional association, or a committee organized by and operating pursuant to a written plan or policy under the auspices of a professional corporation or a professional limited liability company whose members are licensed to practice medicine in this state that is formed to:   (1) Evaluate and improve the quality of health care rendered by providers of health services; or  (2) Determine that:  (A) Health services rendered were professionally indicated or were performed in compliance with the applicable standard of care; or  (B) The cost of health care rendered was considered reasonable by the providers of professional health services in the area.
AR Code § 20-9-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 5 - Peer Review Committees|§ 20-9-502. Liability of committee members

 (a) There shall be no monetary liability on the part of, and no cause of action for damages shall arise against, any member of a peer review committee for any act or proceeding undertaken or performed within the scope of the functions of the committee if the committee member acts without malice or fraud.  (b) This subchapter shall not be construed to confer immunity from liability on any professional association or upon any health professional while performing services other than as a member of a peer review committee.
AR Code § 20-9-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 5 - Peer Review Committees|§ 20-9-503. Proceeding and records confidential — Exception

 (a)  (1) The proceedings and records of a peer review committee shall not be subject to discovery or introduction into evidence in any civil action against a provider of professional health services arising out of the matters which are subject to evaluation and review by the committee.  (2) No person who was in attendance at a meeting of the committee shall be permitted or required to testify in any such civil action as to any evidence or other matters produced or presented during the proceedings of the committee or as to any findings, recommendations, evaluations, opinions, or other actions of the committee or any members thereof.    (b)  (1) However, information, documents, or records otherwise available from original sources are not to be construed as immune from discovery or use in any such action merely because they were presented during the proceedings of the committee.  (2) Nor shall any person who testifies before the committee or who is a member of the committee be prevented from testifying as to matters within his or her knowledge, but the witness shall not be asked about his or her testimony before the committee or about opinions formed by him or her as a result of the committee hearings.    (c) The submission of the peer review proceedings, minutes, records, reports, and communications to a hospital governing board or physician group peer review committee as defined under § 20-9-501 shall not operate as a waiver of the privilege.
AR Code § 20-9-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 6 - Consent to Treatment|§ 20-9-601. Definition

 (a) As used in this subchapter, “of unsound mind” means the inability to perceive all relevant facts related to one's condition and proposed treatment so as to make an intelligent decision based thereon, whether or not the inability is:  (1) Only temporary, has existed for an extended period of time, or occurs or has occurred only intermittently; or  (2) Due to natural state, age, shock or anxiety, illness, injury, drugs or sedation, intoxication, or other cause of whatever nature.    (b) An individual shall not be considered to be of unsound mind based solely upon his or her refusal of medical care or treatment.
AR Code § 20-9-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 6 - Consent to Treatment|§ 20-9-603. Implied consent — Definition

 In addition to any other instances in which consent is excused or implied at law, consent to surgical or medical treatment or procedures suggested, recommended, prescribed, or directed by a licensed physician will be implied in the following circumstances:   (1)  (A) When an emergency exists and there is no one immediately available who is authorized, empowered to, or capable of consent.  (B) “Emergency” means a situation in which, in competent medical judgment, the proposed surgical or medical treatment or procedures are immediately or imminently necessary and any delay occasioned by an attempt to obtain a consent would reasonably be expected to jeopardize the life, health, or safety of the person affected or would reasonably be expected to result in disfigurement or impaired faculties; and    (2) When any emergency exists, there has been a protest or refusal of consent by a person authorized and empowered to do so, and there is no other person immediately available who is authorized, empowered, or capable of consenting but there has been a subsequent material and morbid change in the condition of the affected person.
AR Code § 20-9-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 7 - Medicare|§ 20-9-701. Uniform Medicare charges

 The agency administering the Medicare program in Arkansas shall establish reasonable charges on a single statewide basis according to field of practice. The reasonable charges shall be based on uniform prevailing limits for all physicians throughout the state for the same or similar services.
AR Code § 20-9-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 7 - Medicare|§ 20-9-702. Immunity of hospital utilization review committees

 (a) Physicians and others appointed to hospital utilization review committees for the purpose of determining questions relating to the hospitalization of Medicare patients under the Health Insurance for the Aged and Disabled Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1395 et seq., shall be immune from liability with respect to decisions made as to such questions as long as the physicians or others act in good faith and without malice.  (b) However, nothing in this section shall be construed to relieve any patient's personal physician of any liability which he or she may have in connection with the treatment of the patient.
AR Code § 20-9-801 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 8 - Transplants|§ 20-9-801. Declaration of policy

 (a) The availability of scientific knowledge, skills, and materials for the transplantation, injection, transfusion, or transfer of human tissue, organs, blood, and components thereof is important to the health and welfare of the people of this state.  (b) The imposition of legal liability without fault upon the persons and organizations engaged in such scientific procedures inhibits the exercise of sound medical judgment and restricts the availability of important scientific knowledge, skills, and materials.  (c) It is therefore the public policy of this state to promote the health and welfare of the people by limiting the legal liability arising out of such scientific procedures to instances of negligence or willful misconduct.
AR Code § 20-9-802 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 8 - Transplants|§ 20-9-802. Limitation of liability

 No physician, surgeon, hospital, blood bank, tissue bank, or other person or entity who donates, obtains, prepares, transplants, injects, transfuses, or otherwise transfers or who assists or participates in obtaining, preparing, transplanting, injecting, transfusing, or transferring any tissue, organ, blood, or component thereof from one (1) or more human beings, living or dead, to another human being, shall be liable as the result of the activity, except that each such person or entity shall remain liable for negligence or willful misconduct only.
AR Code § 20-9-901 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 9 - Utilization Review|§ 20-9-901. Purpose

 The purpose of this subchapter is to:   (1) Promote the delivery of quality health care in a cost-effective manner;  (2) Foster greater coordination between payors and providers conducting utilization review activities;  (3) Protect patients, business, and providers by ensuring that private review agents are qualified to perform utilization activities and to make informed decisions on the appropriateness of medical care; and  (4) Ensure that private review agents maintain the confidentiality of medical records.
AR Code § 20-9-902 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 9 - Health Facilities and Services Generally|Subchapter 9 - Utilization Review|§ 20-9-902. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) [Repealed.]  (2) “Certificate” means a certificate of registration granted by the State Board of Health to a private review agent;  (3)  (A) “Private review agent” means a nonhospital-affiliated person or entity performing utilization review on behalf of:  (i) An employer of employees in the State of Arkansas; or  (ii) A third party that provides or administers hospital and medical benefits to citizens of this state, including:  (a) A health maintenance organization issued a certificate of authority under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Arkansas; and  (b) A health insurer, nonprofit health service plan, health insurance service organization, or preferred provider organization or other entity offering health insurance policies, contracts, or benefits in this state.      (B) “Private review agent” does not include automobile, homeowner, or casualty and commercial liability insurers or their employees, agents, or contractors;    (4) “Utilization review” means a system for review which reviews the appropriate and efficient allocation of hospital resources and medical services given or proposed to be given to a patient or group of patients; and  (5) “Utilization review plan” means a description of the utilization review procedures of a private review agent.