(a) The Department of Human Services shall eliminate the waiting list as existing on March 1, 2019, for the Alternative Community Services Waiver Program, also known as the “Developmental Disabilities Waiver”, or successor program.
(b) The department shall meet the requirements of subsection (a) of this section as soon as possible but no later than three (3) years after July 24, 2019 by using available funding streams, unless the department determines that an adequate number of providers for individuals with developmental disabilities does not exist within the state.
(c) An individual who applies for coverage or enrolls in the program after March 1, 2019, may be placed on a waiting list if the department determines that adequate funding streams or resources are not available at the time of application or enrollment.
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