Bill > SB196

This bill appropriates funding for the Department of Human Services - Division of Medical Services for the 2017-2018 fiscal year. Key provisions include: - Establishing the maximum number of regular and part-time/temporary employees for the Division, as well as their salaries. - Appropriating funds for regular salaries, extra help, personal services matching, overtime, and other operating expenses. - Appropriating funds for various grant programs, including ARKids B, hospital and medical services, prescription drugs, private and public nursing home care, and the Child and Family Life Institute. - Providing appropriations for long-term care facility closure costs, receivership, and nursing home quality grants. - Authorizing the Division to adjust Medicaid provider rates based on certain factors, subject to legislative oversight. - Requiring the state to conduct a survey to determine the cost of dispensing prescriptions before changing the Medicaid pharmacy dispensing fee. - Affirming the state's obligation to provide early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment (EPSDT) services under Medicaid. - Allowing private care agencies to provide Medicaid-reimbursed personal care services 7 days a week. - Restricting the Department's use of funds for advertising or promoting the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace and Arkansas Works programs.

Budget and Finance

Joint Budget Committee (J)

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