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2017 Arkansas Code
Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare
Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety
Chapter 7 - State Board of Health -- Department of Health
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 20-7-129. Reimbursement for certain medical supplies or services
Universal Citation: AR Code § 20-7-129 (2017)
- (a)
- (1) The Department of Health may implement a reimbursement system to recover part or all of the costs of delivering services.
- (2) For the purpose of vaccine and vaccine administration reimbursement, if a private healthcare insurer declines or does not respond to a request to contract with the department within ninety (90) days of the request to contract, the private healthcare insurer shall reimburse the department at the rate paid to an in-network provider.
- (b) The system shall provide that fees shall be collected only from those patients who are financially able to pay the fee and that no one shall be denied services because of inability to pay.
- (c)
- (1) Funds derived from the fees shall be used exclusively for the purchase of medical supplies or services necessary to enable the department to continue to provide essential health care.
- (2) The department may transfer six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) in any fiscal year to the State Health Department Building and Local Grant Trust Fund for the purposes established by § 20-7-204.
- (d)
- (1) Funds collected by the department under this section shall be deposited into the State Treasury. These funds shall be credited to the Public Health Fund to be used exclusively for support of medical supplies or services.
- (2) Subject to rules and regulations as may be implemented by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, all unexpended funds that pertain to fees collected shall be carried forward and made available for expenditure for the same purposes for any following fiscal year.
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