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11-9-118. Provider payments while claims are pending.
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11-9-118. Provider payments while claims are pending.
(a) No hospital, physician, or other healthcare provider shall bill or attempt to collect any fee or any portion of a fee for services rendered to an employee due to a work-related injury or report to any credit reporting agency any failure of the employee to make the payment, when a claim for compensation has been filed under this chapter and the hospital, physician, or healthcare provider has received actual notice given in writing by the employee or the employee's representative. Actual notice shall be deemed received by the hospital, physician, or healthcare provider five (5) days after mailing by certified mail by the employee or his or her representative to the hospital, physician, or healthcare provider.
(b) The notice shall include:
(1) The name of the employer;
(2) The name of the insurer, if known;
(3) The name of the employee receiving the services;
(4) The general nature of the injury, if known; and
(5) Where a claim has been filed, the claim number, if known.
(c) When an injury or bill is found to be noncompensable under this chapter, the hospital, physician, or other healthcare provider shall be entitled to pursue the employee for any unpaid portion of the fee or other charges for authorized services provided to the employee. Any applicable statute of limitations for an action for the fees or other charges shall be tolled from the time notice is given to the hospital, physician, or other healthcare provider until a determination of noncompensability in regard to the injury which is the basis of the services is made, or in the event that there is an appeal to the Workers' Compensation Commission, the Court of Appeals, or the Supreme Court, until a final determination of noncompensability
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 11-9-118
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11-9-118. Provider payments while claims are pending.
(a) No hospital, physician, or other healthcare provider shall bill or attempt to collect any fee or any portion of a fee for services rendered to an employee due to a work-related injury or report to any credit reporting agency any failure of the employee to make the payment, when a claim for compensation has been filed under this chapter and the hospital, physician, or healthcare provider has received actual notice given in writing by the employee or the employee's representative. Actual notice shall be deemed received by the hospital, physician, or healthcare provider five (5) days after mailing by certified mail by the employee or his or her representative to the hospital, physician, or healthcare provider.
(b) The notice shall include:
(1) The name of the employer;
(2) The name of the insurer, if known;
(3) The name of the employee receiving the services;
(4) The general nature of the injury, if known; and
(5) Where a claim has been filed, the claim number, if known.
(c) When an injury or bill is found to be noncompensable under this chapter, the hospital, physician, or other healthcare provider shall be entitled to pursue the employee for any unpaid portion of the fee or other charges for authorized services provided to the employee. Any applicable statute of limitations for an action for the fees or other charges shall be tolled from the time notice is given to the hospital, physician, or other healthcare provider until a determination of noncompensability in regard to the injury which is the basis of the services is made, or in the event that there is an appeal to the Workers' Compensation Commission, the Court of Appeals, or the Supreme Court, until a final determination of noncompensability is rendered and all appeal deadlines have passed.
(d) This section shall not avoid, modify, or amend any other section or subsection of this chapter, including, but not limited to, the prohibition against balance billing contained in § 11-9-508(d)(3) and any rules adopted thereunder.
(e) An order by the commission pursuant to this section shall stay all proceedings for collection.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
11-9-508. Medical services and supplies — Liability of employer — Definition.
(a)(1) The employer shall promptly provide for an injured employee such medical, surgical, hospital, chiropractic, optometric, podiatric, and nursing services and medicine, crutches, ambulatory devices, artificial limbs, eyeglasses, contact lenses, hearing aids, and other apparatus as may be reasonably necessary in connection with the injury received by the employee.
(2)(A) Rabies is a highly contagious and potentially deadly infectious disease, and exposure to rabies and the risk of infection is the direct result of an injury caused by the bite of a rabies-infected animal under this section.
(B)(i) An employer shall promptly provide reasonably necessary medical treatment to an injured employee who is exposed to rabies as described in subdivision (a)(2)(A) of this section.
(ii) As used in subdivision (a)(2)(B)(i) of this section, “reasonably necessary medical treatment” means without limitation any diagnostic and preventive measures prescribed for detection, diagnosis, and prevention of rabies.
(b) If the employer fails to provide the medical services set out in subsection (a) of this section within a reasonable time after knowledge of the injury, the Workers' Compensation Commission may direct that the injured employee obtain the medical service at the expense of the employer, and any emergency treatment afforded the injured employee shall be at the expense of the employer. In no circumstance may an employee, his or her family, or dependents, be billed or charged for any portion of the cost of providing the benefits to which he or she is entitled under this chapter.
(c) In order to help control the cost of medical benefits, the commission, on or before July 1, 1994, following a pu
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 11-9-508
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 11-9-508. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.