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AR Code § 20-77-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 3 - Third-Party Liability|§ 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 be obtained against any third party to the Department of Human Services to the full extent of any amount which may be paid by Medicaid for the benefit of the applicant.  (b) The application for Medicaid benefits shall, in itself, constitute an assignment by operation of law.  (c) The assignment shall be considered a statutory lien on any settlement, judgment, or award received by the recipient from a third party.  (d) Every Medicaid applicant, as a condition of eligibility, shall cooperate in establishing paternity, except for good cause shown, for a child born out of wedlock for whom the recipient can legally assign rights, in obtaining medical care, support, and payments for himself or herself or any other person for whom the individual can legally assign rights, and in identifying and providing information to assist the department and the Office of Child Support Enforcement in pursuing any liable third party.
AR Code § 20-77-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 3 - Third-Party Liability|§ 20-77-308. Release of information to Department of Human Services

 All recipients of medical assistance under the Arkansas Medicaid Program shall be deemed to have authorized all third parties including, but not limited to, insurance companies and providers of medical care to release to the Department of Human Services information needed by the department to secure or enforce its rights as assignee under § 20-77-306.
AR Code § 20-77-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 3 - Third-Party Liability|§ 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 are rendered to an insured or dependent who is eligible for medical assistance under the Arkansas Medicaid Program.
AR Code § 20-77-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 3 - Third-Party Liability|§ 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 reducing benefits because services are rendered to a subscriber or dependent who is eligible for medical assistance under the Arkansas Medicaid Program.
AR Code § 20-77-311 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 3 - Third-Party Liability|§ 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 certificate which contains any provision denying or reducing benefits because services are rendered to a certificate holder or beneficiary who is eligible for medical assistance under the Arkansas Medicaid Program.
AR Code § 20-77-312 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 3 - Third-Party Liability|§ 20-77-312. Denial or reduction of benefits — Provisions not applicable to Arkansas Medicaid Program

 General exclusion or reduction provisions relating to benefits paid by or eligibility under governmental programs, whether state or federal, shall not be construed to apply to the Arkansas Medicaid Program.
AR Code § 20-77-313 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 3 - Third-Party Liability|§ 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 Arkansas Medicaid Program is contemplated.
AR Code § 20-77-314 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 3 - Third-Party Liability|§ 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 the Department of Human Services, the medical assistance recipient, the recipient's attorney, or any person acting on behalf of the recipient that the department or the medical assistance recipient requests payment from a third party for damages to the medical assistance recipient for injury, disease, disability, or death for which a third party is or may be liable;  (2)  (A) “Medical assistance recipient” means any person, including a minor, on whose behalf the department has paid medical assistance payments due to injury, disease, or disability.  (B) “Medical assistance recipient” includes a party acting on behalf of the medical assistance recipient, such as a parent, guardian, conservator, other personal representative, estate, or survivor; and    (3) “Third party” means an individual, entity, or a program that is or may be liable to pay all or part of the expenditures for medical assistance payments made by the department.
AR Code § 20-77-315 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 3 - Third-Party Liability|§ 20-77-315. Distribution of proceeds from 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 award or from any other third-party payment that compensates for the medical expenses.  (b) The department is entitled to receive the full amount of its medical assistance claim under this subchapter unless the portion of the third-party settlement, judgment, or award or other third-party payment that compensates for the medical expenses is less than the full amount of the department's medical assistance claim.  (c) The department's claim for medical assistance payments under this subchapter has priority over any claim by a medical care provider.  (d) The department's rights under this subchapter are not extinguished by any right possessed, asserted or not asserted, by a medical assistance recipient or other person.
AR Code § 20-77-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 4 - Prescription Drugs|§ 20-77-401. Purpose

 The purpose of this subchapter is to allow for the continued operation of a prescription drug program as a portion of the Title XIX Medicaid Program for the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 20-77-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 4 - Prescription Drugs|§ 20-77-402. Continuation of program

 (a) The Secretary of the Department of Human Services and the deputy director of the appropriate division of the Department of Human Services are authorized to provide for continued coverage of prescription drugs under the Title XIX Medicaid Program for the State of Arkansas.  (b) The secretary and deputy director are authorized to establish necessary program guidelines to control the provision of this service, provided that the guidelines are not in conflict with any federal or state law or regulation.
AR Code § 20-77-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 4 - Prescription Drugs|§ 20-77-403. Fees paid to participating pharmacists

 (a) The Secretary of the Department of Human Services and the deputy director shall pay each participating pharmacist for each prescription filled under this program the pharmacist's usual and customary charge to the general public for the drug.  (b) However, until existing federal regulations limiting reimbursement for a drug to the lower of the pharmacist's usual and customary charge, or cost of the drug plus a reasonable dispensing fee, are modified or declared invalid by a court, the secretary and the deputy director shall pay for each prescription, the lower of:  (1) The pharmacist's usual and customary charge to the general public for the drug; or  (2) The pharmacist's cost of the drug plus a dispensing fee. The fee will be adjusted annually on July 1 of each year by the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index, except that on any July 1 immediately following a subsequent cost-of-dispensing survey conducted by the appropriate division of the Department of Human Services, the fee will be adjusted using the formula used by the secretary and the deputy director to determine the July 1, 1980, fee or other such formula as may be developed subsequently by the secretary and the deputy director with the approval of the Legislative Council.    (c) In addition to the amounts paid under subdivisions (b)(1) and (2) of this section, at such time as federal regulations shall permit, the pharmacist will also be paid any additional direct and indirect costs which are generated by participation in the Title XIX Medicaid Program. The new additional costs will be paid by the state.
AR Code § 20-77-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 4 - Prescription Drugs|§ 20-77-404. Approval from United States Department of Health and Human Services

 (a) The Secretary of the Department of Human Services and the deputy director are directed to seek approval by the United States Department of Health and Human Services of the provisions of this subchapter so as to qualify this program for maximum contributions from the United States Department of Health and Human Services under its regulations until those regulations are declared invalid or modified.  (b) If, and to the extent that, the United States Department of Health and Human Services hereafter makes any valid rule that any provision of this subchapter disqualifies this program for the maximum contribution, the secretary and the deputy director are directed to comply with any ruling to the extent necessary to qualify for the maximum contribution.
AR Code § 20-77-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 4 - Prescription Drugs|§ 20-77-405. Preference for generic drugs

 Drugs dispensed under the Arkansas Medicaid Program provided for in this subchapter shall, so far as possible, be prescribed and dispensed as generic drugs.
AR Code § 20-77-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 5 - Eye Care|§ 20-77-501. Definition

 For the purpose of this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the term “ocular practitioner” shall include all persons licensed under the Arkansas Medical Practices Act, § 17-95-201 et seq., § 17-95-301 et seq., and § 17-95-401 et seq., and all persons licensed under the Arkansas Optometry Practices Act, § 17-90-101 et seq., and none other.
AR Code § 20-77-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 5 - Eye Care|§ 20-77-502. Applicability

 (a) Nothing in this subchapter shall apply to any person who personally takes, carries, or transports a person with an injured or cut eye due to a current accidental injury or current trauma to any physician or surgeon licensed under the Arkansas Medical Practices Act, § 17-95-201 et seq., § 17-95-301 et seq., and § 17-95-401 et seq., in an emergency, or personally calls any physician or surgeon on behalf of that person in an emergency.  (b) Nothing in this subchapter shall apply to any person licensed under the Arkansas Medical Practices Act, § 17-95-201 et seq., § 17-95-301 et seq., and § 17-95-401 et seq., or the Arkansas Optometry Practices Act, § 17-90-101 et seq., when that person is engaged in the practice of medicine as defined in § 17-95-202 or engaged in the practice of optometry as defined in § 17-90-101.
AR Code § 20-77-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 5 - Eye Care|§ 20-77-503. Practice of optometry not affected

 Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to enlarge or diminish the practice of optometry as defined by law in § 17-90-101.
AR Code § 20-77-504 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 5 - Eye Care|§ 20-77-504. Penalty

 (a) Any person violating this subchapter shall be guilty of a violation and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00).  (b) Each violation shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable as such.
AR Code § 20-77-505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 5 - Eye Care|§ 20-77-505. Injunctions

 (a) The circuit courts of this state having general equity jurisdiction are vested with jurisdiction and power to enjoin any violation of this subchapter by complaint by any resident or state board of this state in the county in which the alleged violation of this subchapter occurred, in the county where the plaintiff resides, in which the defendant resides or, if there is more than one (1) defendant, in the county in which any defendant resides.  (b) The issuance of an injunction shall not relieve a person from criminal prosecution for violation of the provisions of this subchapter, but the remedy of injunction shall be in addition to liability to criminal prosecution, it being the intention to provide a speedy remedy against violations in the interest of public health.
AR Code § 20-77-506 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 5 - Eye Care|§ 20-77-506. Right of freedom of choice

 (a) Every person eligible for an eye examination, the payment for which shall or may be made out of public money, is guaranteed his or her freedom of choice between persons licensed under the laws governing the practice of optometry, § 17-90-101 et seq., and persons licensed under the Arkansas Medical Practices Act, § 17-95-201 et seq., § 17-95-301 et seq., and § 17-95-401 et seq.  (b) Every person eligible for an ear examination the payment for which shall or may be made out of public money is guaranteed his or her freedom of choice between persons licensed under the Licensure Act of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, § 17-100-101 et seq., or persons licensed under the Arkansas Medical Practices Act, § 17-95-201 et seq., § 17-95-301 et seq., and § 17-95-401 et seq.
AR Code § 20-77-507 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 5 - Eye Care|§ 20-77-507. List of ocular practitioners

 (a) When expending public money for any purpose involving human eye examinations or the care of vision or examinations for the correction or relief of any visual or muscular anomaly of the eye, any state board, agency, commission, department, or political subdivision, or any employee or member thereof, created or existing under the Arkansas Constitution or by act of the General Assembly, including public schools or other state agencies and their employees or any governmental employees who, in the performance of duty, are responsible for such expenditures, when informing a person eligible for an eye examination or a vision examination or for an examination for the correction of any visual or muscular anomaly of the eye, shall under no circumstances give, tell, or inform the eligible person by direct or indirect reference or suggestion, the name, address, or classification of any ocular practitioner, except that the eligible person shall be furnished one (1) printed list only of all ocular practitioners, with the office address of each, practicing within the State of Arkansas.  (b) The list shall be broken down by counties and shall list ocular practitioners in alphabetical order by county and shall show the county in which the ocular practitioner designates that he or she maintains his or her principal office.  (c) The name of the ocular practitioner shall appear only one (1) time on the list and shall show only his or her name, principal office address, and the classification or designation M.D. or O.D. or D.O., as the case may be, after each name and nothing else.  (d)  (1) It shall be the duty of the Department of Human Services or its successors to prepare and revise the list from time to time but not less often than each six (6) months.  (2) The revised list shall be filed with the Secretary of State on March 31 and September 30 of each year.  (3) No public employee shall furnish any list or inform any person who is eligible for public money by direct or indirect reference or suggestion the name, address, or classification of any ocular practitioner until the list is on file with the Secretary of State and then only in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter.    (e) The list shall show only the names of those ocular practitioners who request the department to place his or her name upon the list. Once the name of the ocular practitioner is upon this list, no further request from the ocular practitioner shall be necessary. The name of any ocular practitioner shall be removed from the list upon his or her written request to the department.  (f) The eligible person shall be free to choose any ocular practitioner from the list regardless of the person's place of residence or the location of the office of the ocular practitioner.
AR Code § 20-77-508 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 5 - Eye Care|§ 20-77-508. Recommendation of individual practitioner unlawful and nuisance

 The recommendation or naming of any particular ocular practitioner or group of ocular practitioners, professional association or firm, corporation, or association by any state employee or member of any state board, commission, department, political subdivision, or public school employee engaged in the expenditure of public money for eye examinations or vision examinations is declared to be an unlawful act and a public nuisance.
AR Code § 20-77-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 7 - Special Needs Trust Revolving Fund|§ 20-77-701. Legislative intent

 It is the intent of the General Assembly to provide a method of assisting those persons within the state who as a result of personal injury, disability, or other medical condition are in need of supplemental benefits to improve or maintain reasonable quality-of-life standards. To this end, it is the further intent of the General Assembly to provide benefits in the amount of expenses actually incurred to satisfy those special needs. Furthermore, the cotrustees of the Special Needs Trust Revolving Fund shall have, in addition to those powers and duties set forth in this subchapter, all powers and duties authorized, imposed, or conferred by law upon cotrustees of the fund.
AR Code § 20-77-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 5 - Social Services|Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance|Subchapter 7 - Special Needs Trust Revolving Fund|§ 20-77-702. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Allowable expense” means charges incurred for needed products, services, and accommodations, including, but not limited to, medical care, rehabilitation, rehabilitative occupational training, and other remedial treatment and care;  (2) “Beneficiary” means a natural person who has sustained injury, is wholly or partially disabled or suffers from medical conditions, and is dependent for care or support;  (3) “Claimant” means any of the following persons applying for reparations under this subchapter:  (A) A beneficiary;  (B) A dependent of a beneficiary; and  (C) A person authorized to act on behalf of any of the persons enumerated in subdivisions (3)(A) and (B) of this section;    (4) “Collateral source” means a source of benefits or advantages for economic loss for which the claimant would otherwise be eligible to receive under this subchapter which the claimant has received, or which is readily available to the claimant, from any one (1) or more of the following:  (A) State required temporary nonoccupational disability insurance;  (B) Workers' compensation;  (C) Wage continuation programs of any employer;  (D) Proceeds of a contract of insurance payable to the claimant for loss which the beneficiary sustained; or  (E) A contract providing services or benefits for disability;    (5) “Contributing beneficiary” means a beneficiary who has contributed funds to the Special Needs Trust Revolving Fund;  (6) “Cotrustees of the Special Needs Trust Revolving Fund” shall mean:  (A) The Department of Human Services; and  (B) A federally insured bank, savings bank, or safe deposit or trust company authorized by law to do business as such, which shall be selected by the department. The department shall have the authority to choose a new cotrustee under this subdivision (6) at its discretion;    (7) “Economic loss” means monetary detriment consisting only of allowable expense and replacement services loss;  (8) “Grantor” means the individual, institution, or entity that established, created, or funded the trust and shall also include fiduciaries as defined by § 28-69-201 and third parties as contemplated by § 20-77-301 et seq.;  (9) “Noneconomic detriment” means inconvenience, physical impairment, and nonpecuniary damage;  (10) “Replacement services loss” means expenses reasonably incurred in obtaining ordinary and necessary services; and  (11) “Trust” means a trust, or similar legal device, established other than by will by an individual or an individual's spouse under which the individual may be a beneficiary of all or part of the payments from the trust, and the distribution of such payments is determined by one (1) or more trustees or other fiduciaries who are permitted to exercise any discretion with respect to the distribution to the individual. The term “trust” shall include trusts, conservatorships, and estates created pursuant to the administration of a guardianship.