(a) Any provider of medical services which shall be determined by the administrator of the single state agency for Medicaid to purposely engage in the practice of seeking or receiving double or duplicate payments for the same services either through double billing or through any other device may be suspended from the Arkansas Medicaid Program for a period of time not less than ninety (90) days or not more than one (1) year.
(b) In addition, as a condition of and before reinstatement to the program, the medical services provider shall make full and reasonable restitution to the Medicaid-eligible person or his or her payee for all payment collected.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 77 - Medical Assistance
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 20-77-101. Cost-sharing charges for medically indigent — Legislative intent
§ 20-77-102. Program for long-term care facility care
§ 20-77-103. Compacts with certain out-of-state hospitals — Definition
§ 20-77-104. Double billing — Legislative intent
§ 20-77-105. Double billing — Suspension of medical services provider from Arkansas Medicaid Program
§ 20-77-106. Medical services program for Medicaid-eligible patients of Arkansas Children's Hospital
§ 20-77-107. Program for indigent medical care — Rules
§ 20-77-108. Furnishing of annual audit by nonprofit Medicaid providers
§ 20-77-109. Medicaid assistance for children — Effect on child support
§ 20-77-110. Increase in reimbursement rate
§ 20-77-115. Personal care reimbursement rates
§ 20-77-119. Finding — Resource eligibility limit
§ 20-77-121. Adverse decisions — Notice — Rights — Definitions
§ 20-77-122. Survey agency for psychiatric residential treatment facilities of children
§ 20-77-123. Drugs for asthma and other respiratory diseases — Definitions
§ 20-77-124. Medicaid waiver for autism — Definitions
§ 20-77-125. Contingency fee audits prohibited — Definitions
§ 20-77-126. Relation to Arkansas Pharmacy Audit Bill of Rights
§ 20-77-127. Eligibility for long-term care
§ 20-77-128. In-home caregiver drug tests and criminal background checks — Definition
§ 20-77-129. Ambulatory surgery centers — Medicaid reimbursement — Definitions
§ 20-77-130. Medicaid provider tax returns — Definition
§ 20-77-131. Determination that a Medicaid provider is out of business — Definition
§ 20-77-132. Diagnosis-related group methodology for hospitals — Definition
§ 20-77-133. Walk-in clinic and emergent care clinic — Medicaid reimbursement — Definitions
§ 20-77-134. Direct access to chiropractic physicians
§ 20-77-135. Peer support specialist
§ 20-77-136. Additional albuterol inhaler
§ 20-77-137. Ridesharing application — Medicaid reimbursement — Definition