§ 20-77-118 - State-federal relationship. - Arkansas Statutes

20-77-118. State-federal relationship.

(a) The Department of Human Services shall seek a Medicare reimbursement policy waiver or appropriate cooperative relationship with the federal government to permit Arkansas to create a ten-year demonstration project in this state's economically disadvantaged counties for the purpose of increasing the number of physicians and improving the health care facilities in those economically disadvantaged counties.

(b) The waiver application will request the Health Care Financing Administration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services to allow Medicare reimbursements for this state's economically disadvantaged counties to be set at the same rate as that of San Francisco.