(a) By accepting Medicaid assistance for or on behalf of a child, the recipient thereof shall be deemed to have assigned to the Office of Child Support Enforcement and any appropriate division of the Department of Human Services any rights to medical support, and for collection and distribution under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, any rights to child support from any other person as the recipient may have:
(1) In his or her own behalf or in behalf of any other family member for whom the recipient is receiving assistance; and
(2) Accrued at the time the assistance, or any portion thereof, is accepted.
(b) The recipient shall have the right to revoke the assignment for the collection and distribution of child support by requesting revocation of the assignment in writing. However, a revocation shall not affect the requirements of § 20-77-307.
(c) Support rights assigned to the department under this section shall constitute an obligation owed to the State of Arkansas by the person responsible for providing the support, and the obligation shall be collectible under all legal processes.
(d) The appropriate division of the department shall give notice, in writing, to each applicant for assistance. The notice shall state that acceptance of assistance would invoke the provisions of subsection (a) of this section and result in an assignment under subsection (a) of this section.
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