(a) Annually in the month of August, the Arkansas Medicaid Program shall cover the cost of one (1) additional albuterol inhaler for a Medicaid beneficiary who has been prescribed an albuterol inhaler and who is under eighteen (18) years of age.
(b) The Department of Human Services shall apply for any federal waiver, Medicaid state plan amendments, or other authority necessary to implement this section.
(c) This section applies to Medicaid beneficiaries in the fee-for-service Arkansas Medicaid Program and the managed care Arkansas Medicaid Program.
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