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20-77-2807. Quarterly notice and collection.
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20-77-2807. Quarterly notice and collection.
(a)(1) The annual medical transportation provider assessment imposed under § 20-77-2803 shall be due and payable on a quarterly basis.
(2) However, an installment payment of an assessment imposed by § 20-77-2803 shall not be due and payable until:
(A) The Division of Medical Services of the Department of Human Services issues the written notice required by § 20-77-2808(a) stating that the payment methodologies to medical transportation providers required under § 20-77-2809 have been approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the waiver under 42 C.F.R. § 433.68 for the assessment imposed by § 20-77-2803, if necessary, has been granted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services;
(B) The thirty-day verification period required by § 20-77-2808(b) has expired; and
(C) The division has made all quarterly installments of emergency medical transportation access payments that were otherwise due under § 20-77-2809 consistent with the effective date of the approved state plan amendment and waiver.
(3) After the initial installment has been paid under this section, each subsequent quarterly installment payment of an assessment imposed by § 20-77-2803 shall be due and payable within ten (10) business days after the medical transportation provider has received its emergency medical transportation access payments due under § 20-77-2809 for the applicable quarter.
(b)(1) If a medical transportation provider fails to timely pay the full amount of a quarterly assessment, the division shall add to the assessment:
(A) A penalty assessment equal to five percent (5%) of the quarterly amount not paid on or before the due date; and
(B) On the last day of each quarter after the due date until the assessed amou
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-77-2807
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20-77-2807. Quarterly notice and collection.
(a)(1) The annual medical transportation provider assessment imposed under § 20-77-2803 shall be due and payable on a quarterly basis.
(2) However, an installment payment of an assessment imposed by § 20-77-2803 shall not be due and payable until:
(A) The Division of Medical Services of the Department of Human Services issues the written notice required by § 20-77-2808(a) stating that the payment methodologies to medical transportation providers required under § 20-77-2809 have been approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the waiver under 42 C.F.R. § 433.68 for the assessment imposed by § 20-77-2803, if necessary, has been granted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services;
(B) The thirty-day verification period required by § 20-77-2808(b) has expired; and
(C) The division has made all quarterly installments of emergency medical transportation access payments that were otherwise due under § 20-77-2809 consistent with the effective date of the approved state plan amendment and waiver.
(3) After the initial installment has been paid under this section, each subsequent quarterly installment payment of an assessment imposed by § 20-77-2803 shall be due and payable within ten (10) business days after the medical transportation provider has received its emergency medical transportation access payments due under § 20-77-2809 for the applicable quarter.
(b)(1) If a medical transportation provider fails to timely pay the full amount of a quarterly assessment, the division shall add to the assessment:
(A) A penalty assessment equal to five percent (5%) of the quarterly amount not paid on or before the due date; and
(B) On the last day of each quarter after the due date until the assessed amount and the penalty imposed under subdivision (b)(1)(A) of this section are paid in full, an additional five percent (5%) penalty assessment on any unpaid quarterly and unpaid penalty assessment amounts.
(2) Payments shall be credited first to unpaid quarterly amounts, rather than to penalty or interest amounts, beginning with the most delinquent installment.
(3) If the division is unable to recoup from Medicaid payments the full amount of any unpaid assessment or penalty assessment, or both, the division may file suit in a court of competent jurisdiction to collect up to double the amount due, the division's costs related to the suit, and reasonable attorney's fees.
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20-77-2803. Medical transportation provider assessment.
(a)(1) Except as provided in this subchapter, an assessment is imposed on each medical transportation provider for each state fiscal year in an amount calculated as a percentage of the net operating revenues of the medical transportation provider.
(2) The assessment rate shall be determined annually based upon the percentage of net operating 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 the Arkansas Medicaid Program under § 20-77-2805(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).
(3) The assessment rate described in subsection (a) of this section shall be determined after consultation with The Arkansas Ambulance Association or its successor association.
(b) This subchapter does not authorize a unit of county or local government to license for revenue or impose a tax or assessment:
(1) Upon medical transportation providers; or
(2) Measured by the income or earnings of a medical transportation provider.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-77-2803
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 20-77-2803. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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20-77-2808. Notice of assessment.
(a)(1) The Division of Medical Services of the Department of Human Services shall send a notice of assessment to each medical transportation provider informing the medical transportation provider of the assessment rate, the medical transportation provider's net operating revenue calculation, and the estimated assessment amount owed by the medical transportation provider for the applicable fiscal year.
(2) Except as set forth in subdivision (a)(3) of this section, annual notices of assessment shall be sent at least forty-five (45) days before the due date for the first quarterly assessment payment of each fiscal year.
(3) The first notice of assessment shall be sent within seventy-five (75) days after receipt by the division of notification from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that the payments required under § 20-77-2809 and, if necessary, the waiver granted under 42 C.F.R. § 433.68 have been approved.
(b) The medical transportation provider shall have thirty (30) days from the date of its receipt of a notice of assessment to review and verify the assessment rate, the medical transportation provider's net operating revenue calculation, and the estimated assessment amount.
(c)(1) If a medical transportation provider operates, conducts, or maintains more than one (1) medical transportation provider in the state, the medical transportation provider shall pay the assessment for each medical transportation provider separately.
(2) However, if the medical transportation provider operates more than one (1) medical transportation provider under one (1) Medicaid provider number, the medical transportation provider may pay the assessment for the medical transportation providers in the aggregate.
(d)(1) For a medical tra
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-77-2808
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 20-77-2808. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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20-77-2809. Emergency medical transportation access payments.
(a) To preserve and improve access to medical transportation services, for medical transportation services rendered on or after July 1, 2017, the Division of Medical Services of the Department of Human Services shall make emergency medical transportation access payments as set forth in this section.
(b) The division shall calculate the emergency medical transportation access payment amount as the balance of the Medical Transportation Assessment Account plus any federal matching funds earned on the balance, up to but not to exceed the upper payment limit gap for all medical transportation providers.
(c)(1) Except as provided in § 20-77-2806, all medical transportation providers shall be eligible for emergency medical transportation access payments each state fiscal year as set forth in this subsection.
(2)(A) In addition to any other funds paid to medical transportation providers for emergency medical services to Medicaid patients, each eligible medical transportation provider shall receive emergency medical transportation access payments each state fiscal year equal to the medical transportation provider's proportionate share of the total upper payment limit gap for all providers of emergency medical services.
(B) Emergency medical transportation access payments shall be made on a quarterly basis.
(C) In addition to other rules as the division determines are necessary to implement emergency medical transportation access payments, the division may create separate levels of assessments and emergency medical transportation access payments for ambulance services and air ambulance services.
(d) An emergency medical transportation access payment shall not be used to offset any other payment by Medicai
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-77-2809
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 20-77-2809. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.