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20-77-1903. Program administration.
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20-77-1903. Program administration.
(a) The Director of the Division of Medical Services of the Department of Human Services shall administer the assessment program created in this subchapter.
(b)(1) The Division of Medical Services of the Department of Human Services shall adopt rules to implement this subchapter.
(2) Unless otherwise provided in this subchapter, the rules adopted under subdivision (b)(1) of this section shall not grant any exceptions to or exemptions from the hospital assessment imposed under § 20-77-1902.
(3) The rules adopted under subdivision (b)(1) of this section shall include any necessary forms for:
(A) Proper imposition and collection of the assessment imposed under § 20-77-1902;
(B) Enforcement of this subchapter, including without limitation letters of caution or sanctions; and
(C) Reporting of net patient revenue.
(c) To the extent practicable, the division shall administer and enforce this subchapter and collect the assessments, interest, and penalty assessments imposed under this subchapter using procedures generally employed in the administration of the division's other powers, duties, and functions.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-77-1903
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20-77-1903. Program administration.
(a) The Director of the Division of Medical Services of the Department of Human Services shall administer the assessment program created in this subchapter.
(b)(1) The Division of Medical Services of the Department of Human Services shall adopt rules to implement this subchapter.
(2) Unless otherwise provided in this subchapter, the rules adopted under subdivision (b)(1) of this section shall not grant any exceptions to or exemptions from the hospital assessment imposed under § 20-77-1902.
(3) The rules adopted under subdivision (b)(1) of this section shall include any necessary forms for:
(A) Proper imposition and collection of the assessment imposed under § 20-77-1902;
(B) Enforcement of this subchapter, including without limitation letters of caution or sanctions; and
(C) Reporting of net patient revenue.
(c) To the extent practicable, the division shall administer and enforce this subchapter and collect the assessments, interest, and penalty assessments imposed under this subchapter using procedures generally employed in the administration of the division's other powers, duties, and functions.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
20-77-1902. Assessment.
(a)(1) An assessment is imposed on each hospital except those exempted under § 20-77-1905 for each state fiscal year in an amount calculated as a percentage of each hospital's net patient revenue.
(2) The assessment rate shall be determined annually based upon the percentage of net patient revenue needed to generate an amount up to the nonfederal portion of the upper payment limit gap plus the annual fee to be paid to Medicaid under § 20-77-1904(f)(1)(C), but in no case at a rate that would cause the assessment proceeds to exceed the indirect guarantee threshold set forth in 42 C.F.R. § 433.68(f)(3)(i).
(b)(1)(A) Except as set forth in subdivision (b)(1)(B) or subdivision (b)(1)(C) of this section, for state fiscal year 2010, net patient revenue shall be determined using the data from each hospital's fiscal year 2007 Medicare Cost Report contained in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Healthcare Cost Report Information System file dated June 30, 2008.
(B) If a hospital's fiscal year 2007 Medicare Cost Report is not contained in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Healthcare Cost Report Information System file dated June 30, 2008, the hospital shall submit a copy of the hospital's 2007 Medicare Cost Report to the Division of Medical Services of the Department of Human Services in order to allow the division to determine the hospital's net patient revenue for state fiscal year 2010.
(C) If a hospital commenced operations after the due date for a 2007 Medicare Cost Report, the hospital shall submit its 2008 Medicare Cost Report to the division in order to allow the division to determine the hospital's net patient revenue for state fiscal year 2010.
(2) For each subsequent state fiscal year, net patient revenue shall
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-77-1902
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 20-77-1902. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.