Browse Arkansas Code titles and sections
23-99-1003. Prohibited practices — Agreements.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
23-99-1003. Prohibited practices — Agreements.
(a) A participating provider agreement between an insurer, vision care plan, or vision care discount plan and a vision care provider shall not establish a fee that a vision care provider shall charge for services or materials that are not covered by a vision benefit plan or contract.
(b) A vision care provider shall not charge a fee for services or materials that is more than the vision care provider's normal rate for the services or materials if the services or materials are noncovered services or noncovered materials.
(c)(1) An insurer, vision care plan, or vision care discount plan shall not require a vision care provider to apply a discount to an individual who is insured by the insurer with a participating vision care provider for noncovered services or noncovered materials.
(2) An insurer, vision care plan, or vision care discount plan shall not avoid the restriction under subdivision (c)(1) of this section by providing minimal reimbursement for a service or materials to apply a discount.
(d) A participating provider agreement between an insurer, vision care plan, or vision care discount plan and a vision care provider shall not require that a vision care provider participate with or be credentialed by any specific vision care plan or vision care discount plan as a condition to join an insurer's provider panel.
(e) A participating provider agreement between an insurer, vision care plan, or vision care discount plan and a vision care provider shall not restrict or limit, directly or indirectly, the vision care provider's choice of optical labs or choice of sources and suppliers of services or materials provided by the vision care provider to an individual who is insured by the insurer.
(f) The terms, disc
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-99-1003
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. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.
Issuing source page ↗
Authority boundary: historical statutory source snapshot not current law.
Open the recorded source website ↗
Record provenance
Stable record: arkansas_code:legal_authorities:23-99-1003
Source file: gov.ar.code.title.23.odt
Pages: Not recorded – Not recorded
Passage SHA-256: fcb9002ebeae81d7a4214c9256acc7d535ccbc789d3b6b3c72cf8b5392f06ff7
Source location: content.xml paragraph 59495
Stored source content
23-99-1003. Prohibited practices — Agreements.
(a) A participating provider agreement between an insurer, vision care plan, or vision care discount plan and a vision care provider shall not establish a fee that a vision care provider shall charge for services or materials that are not covered by a vision benefit plan or contract.
(b) A vision care provider shall not charge a fee for services or materials that is more than the vision care provider's normal rate for the services or materials if the services or materials are noncovered services or noncovered materials.
(c)(1) An insurer, vision care plan, or vision care discount plan shall not require a vision care provider to apply a discount to an individual who is insured by the insurer with a participating vision care provider for noncovered services or noncovered materials.
(2) An insurer, vision care plan, or vision care discount plan shall not avoid the restriction under subdivision (c)(1) of this section by providing minimal reimbursement for a service or materials to apply a discount.
(d) A participating provider agreement between an insurer, vision care plan, or vision care discount plan and a vision care provider shall not require that a vision care provider participate with or be credentialed by any specific vision care plan or vision care discount plan as a condition to join an insurer's provider panel.
(e) A participating provider agreement between an insurer, vision care plan, or vision care discount plan and a vision care provider shall not restrict or limit, directly or indirectly, the vision care provider's choice of optical labs or choice of sources and suppliers of services or materials provided by the vision care provider to an individual who is insured by the insurer.
(f) The terms, discounts, and reimbursement rates in a participating contract between an insurer, vision care plan, or vision care discount plan with a vision care provider shall not be modified during the term of a participating contract absent written authorization from the vision care provider.
(g) An optician licensed under the Ophthalmic Dispensing Act, § 17-89-101 et seq., is subject to:
(1) Subsections (c) and (e) of this section; and
(2) Subsection (b) of this section in regard to materials.
Cross-references
Connections may be documented source relationships, shared citations or nearby passages. Each explains its basis; a connection alone does not establish applicability to your situation.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
17-89-101. Short title.
This chapter shall be known and cited as the “Ophthalmic Dispensing Act”.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-89-101
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 17-89-101. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.