Browse Arkansas Code titles and sections
6-64-505. Medical indigents — Quota of patients from counties and municipalities.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
6-64-505. Medical indigents — Quota of patients from counties and municipalities.
(a) There is assigned and made available to each county in Arkansas the following quotas of medical services, including hospitalization, at the University of Arkansas Medical Center, herein referred to as the State Medical Center, to be utilized by the citizens of the respective counties and the municipalities therein according to the provisions of §§ 6-64-502, 6-64-504, 6-64-506, and 6-64-508.
(b) The quotas shall be computed as follows:
(1)Hospital Quota.
(A) Annually, on or before July 1, the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas shall certify to the Chancellor for Health Sciences of the University of Arkansas the total number of hospital beds estimated to be available for use, based upon funds available, during the next twelve-month period at the State Medical Center.
(B) The chancellor shall then multiply the total available beds so certified by three hundred sixty-five (365), the days in the year, and multiply the result thereof by eighty-five percent (85%), which is determined by the General Assembly as being the average normal occupancy of hospital beds to be expected by a hospital of this type. The result of such calculations shall be the net annual patient-day usage of the State Medical Center for the next twelve (12) months.
(C) The chancellor shall then prorate the net annual patient-day usage of the State Medical Center among the counties of this state in proportion to each county that the population of such county bears to the total population of all the counties of this state according to the most recent federal census figures available at the time of the annual calculation of the quota. The pro rata apportionment shall be the annual quota of hospital us
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-64-505
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:6-64-505
Source file: gov.ar.code.title.06.odt
Pages: Not recorded – Not recorded
Passage SHA-256: f2a27018e3db762dc6dd7aa5b565eb5c4edd8bdf023699b3f1a9e0acd6529c71
Source location: content.xml paragraph 39887
Stored source content
6-64-505. Medical indigents — Quota of patients from counties and municipalities.
(a) There is assigned and made available to each county in Arkansas the following quotas of medical services, including hospitalization, at the University of Arkansas Medical Center, herein referred to as the State Medical Center, to be utilized by the citizens of the respective counties and the municipalities therein according to the provisions of §§ 6-64-502, 6-64-504, 6-64-506, and 6-64-508.
(b) The quotas shall be computed as follows:
(1)Hospital Quota.
(A) Annually, on or before July 1, the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas shall certify to the Chancellor for Health Sciences of the University of Arkansas the total number of hospital beds estimated to be available for use, based upon funds available, during the next twelve-month period at the State Medical Center.
(B) The chancellor shall then multiply the total available beds so certified by three hundred sixty-five (365), the days in the year, and multiply the result thereof by eighty-five percent (85%), which is determined by the General Assembly as being the average normal occupancy of hospital beds to be expected by a hospital of this type. The result of such calculations shall be the net annual patient-day usage of the State Medical Center for the next twelve (12) months.
(C) The chancellor shall then prorate the net annual patient-day usage of the State Medical Center among the counties of this state in proportion to each county that the population of such county bears to the total population of all the counties of this state according to the most recent federal census figures available at the time of the annual calculation of the quota. The pro rata apportionment shall be the annual quota of hospital usage at the State Medical Center for each county;
(2) Quotas of Cities of Over 10,000 Population. Each city of this state having a population of over ten thousand (10,000) according to the most recent federal census figures available at the time of figuring annual quotas under this subchapter shall be assigned an annual proportionate quota of hospital usage assigned to the county in which any such city is located, which city quota shall be computed in the proportion that the population of the city bears to the population of the county. The quotas assigned to any city of over ten thousand (10,000) population of hospital usage at the State Medical Center shall be deducted from the quota assigned to the county in which the city is located.
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
6-64-502. Admission of other patients not affected by subchapter.
Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to interfere with the admission of patients at the State Medical Center who have the ability to pay for medical care received, nor shall this subchapter interfere with or affect the admission of welfare patients at the medical center where the cost of such care is paid by the Department of Human Services according to an approved plan for medical care and hospitalization established for public welfare patients by the department.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-64-502
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 6-64-502. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
6-64-504. Admission as medical indigent — Certification procedure.
(a)(1) In all cases where a resident of a county or municipality assigned a quota in § 6-64-505 seeks to use the quota to defray any part of the expense of his or her medical service, including hospitalization, at the State Medical Center, the resident must first have been determined by his or her county judge or chief administrative officer of his or her municipality to be unable to pay for all or any part of the service.
(2) The county judge or chief administrative officer may then certify in writing that the resident is eligible for such care.
(3) There shall be no charge made against the county or municipality for medical care until the person shall be so certified, unless the certification is waived as authorized in this section.
(b)(1)(A) The county judge or chief administrative officer may elect to waive the above certification procedure, except that such waiver shall not apply to counties or cities which, in the preceding year, have recorded a total of two thousand (2,000) or more patient days at the medical center. In such event, individual certification of patients will be required as a prerequisite to admission of such patients to the medical center hospital.
(B) In counties and cities where waiver of individual certification is applicable, individual certification of patients will be required in all cases where the hospitalization of the patient would cause the current month's quota to be exceeded.
(2) The judge or officer waiving the certification procedure must so notify the medical center in writing.
(3) It shall be the duty of the medical center to notify the county judge or administrative officer at the time the rate of use of his or her county or municipal quota shall have
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-64-504
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 6-64-504. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
6-64-506. Medical indigents — Patients not charged against quotas.
Any patient admitted to the State Medical Center as a public welfare patient certified by the Department of Human Services, or any patient admitted to the State Medical Center who on admittance can guarantee, either by hospitalization insurance or cash deposit, at least fifty percent (50%) of the anticipated costs of treatment, shall not be charged against the quota of any county or municipality established pursuant to this subchapter.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-64-506
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 6-64-506. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
6-64-508. Medical indigents — Collections from patients.
(a) It further shall be the duty of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Center to collect fees from patients in all cases where it is established that the patient is able to pay, either through insurance coverage or his or her own resources, a part or all of the medical or hospital costs incurred.
(b) Billings to patients shall be made on a periodic basis.
(c) In cases of willful refusal to pay, the medical center is directed to take whatever legal action is necessary to satisfy the account.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-64-508
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 6-64-508. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.