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6-64-507. Medical indigents — Charges for costs in excess of quota — Payment or collection.
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6-64-507. Medical indigents — Charges for costs in excess of quota — Payment or collection.
(a) The actual cost of hospitalization utilized in any calendar month at the State Medical Center by medical indigents as determined as provided in § 6-64-503 which is in excess of the dollar value at prevailing average per diem cost of one-twelfth (1/12) of the quotas set out in § 6-64-505 shall be charged to the county in which the recipient of the medical service resides or, in case a quota is assigned to the municipality in which the recipient resides, to the municipality.
(b)(1) No unused quota amounts remaining in any month may thereafter be used as a credit against charges in any other month.
(2) Furthermore, no unused portion of a quota during any month by any county shall be allowed as a credit against any other county that may have exceeded its quota during such month.
(c)(1) Each thirty (30) days a statement of charges due to the State Medical Center shall be mailed to the county judge or chief administrative officer of the municipality for the net cost of excess services, as defined in subsection (a) of this section, rendered during the calendar month preceding.
(2) Whenever the county or municipality fails to pay to the State Medical Center, within thirty (30) days, the net charges billed to the county or municipality for services in excess of the quotas established in § 6-64-505, the medical center shall make a certification to the Treasurer of State setting forth the names of the county or municipality as the case may be, the amount owed by the county or municipal corporation, and the period during which the unpaid debt shall have accrued.
(3) Upon receipt of the certification, the Treasurer of State shall withhold from such moneys as would otherwise be
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-64-507
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6-64-507. Medical indigents — Charges for costs in excess of quota — Payment or collection.
(a) The actual cost of hospitalization utilized in any calendar month at the State Medical Center by medical indigents as determined as provided in § 6-64-503 which is in excess of the dollar value at prevailing average per diem cost of one-twelfth (1/12) of the quotas set out in § 6-64-505 shall be charged to the county in which the recipient of the medical service resides or, in case a quota is assigned to the municipality in which the recipient resides, to the municipality.
(b)(1) No unused quota amounts remaining in any month may thereafter be used as a credit against charges in any other month.
(2) Furthermore, no unused portion of a quota during any month by any county shall be allowed as a credit against any other county that may have exceeded its quota during such month.
(c)(1) Each thirty (30) days a statement of charges due to the State Medical Center shall be mailed to the county judge or chief administrative officer of the municipality for the net cost of excess services, as defined in subsection (a) of this section, rendered during the calendar month preceding.
(2) Whenever the county or municipality fails to pay to the State Medical Center, within thirty (30) days, the net charges billed to the county or municipality for services in excess of the quotas established in § 6-64-505, the medical center shall make a certification to the Treasurer of State setting forth the names of the county or municipality as the case may be, the amount owed by the county or municipal corporation, and the period during which the unpaid debt shall have accrued.
(3) Upon receipt of the certification, the Treasurer of State shall withhold from such moneys as would otherwise be due such county or municipality from the general revenues of this state the amount needed to liquidate the debt and transfer the amount thereof to the University of Arkansas Medical Center Fund. Any remaining balance of such general revenues which would otherwise have been payable to the county or municipality shall be paid to such county or municipality as in the instance in which no withholding was made.
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6-64-503. Medical indigents — Determination of status.
(a) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, medical indigents shall include all residents of this state who are unable to pay part or all of the cost of necessary medical and hospital services, but shall not include any person for whom medical and hospital services are paid by the Department of Human Services.
(b) Each county judge or chief administrative officer of a municipality affected by this subchapter is authorized to establish necessary rules and regulations to be followed in determining medical indigency of persons seeking admission to the medical center under the provisions of this subchapter.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-64-503
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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. The source passage cites 6-64-505. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.