Page 25 State Telehealth Laws and Reimbursement Policies A Comprehensive Scan of the 50 States and District of Columbia

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Arkansas

Medicaid Program: Arkansas Medicaid

Program Administrator: Arkansas Department of Human Services

Regional Telehealth Resource Center
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
4301 W. Markham St. #519
Little Rock, AR 72205
(855) 664-3450
learntelehealth.org

STATE LAW/REGULATIONS MEDICAID PROGRAM

Definition of telemedicine/telehealth
“Telemedicine means an interactive telecommunications Arkansas Medicaid defines telemedicine services as
system that: Utilizes information technology, audio, “medical services performed as electronic transactions
video and other appropriate elements, and is compatible in real time. In order for a telemedicine encounter to be
with other telemedicine networks; and is used for the covered by Medicaid, the practitioner and the patient
purpose of enhancing the delivery of medical information must be able to see and hear each other in real time.”
and health care to medical facilities in rural and urban
areas throughout Arkansas.” Source: 016 06 06 Code of AR Rules and Regs. (CARR) 024
(2012).

Source: AR Code Annotated Sec. 10-3-1702 (2012)
The Medicaid manual describes telemedicine as,
“Interactive electronic consultations are physician
consultations, “face-to-face” in real time, via two-way
electronic data exchange.”

Source: AR Provider Manual, Section II: Physician/Independent
Labe/CRNA/Radiation Therapy Center, p. 34.
Live Video Reimbursement
No reference found. Arkansas Medicaid will reimburse for up to two visits per
patient, per year. A benefit extension request may be
approved if it is medically necessary.

Covered visits:

• Consults;
• Fetal echography and echocardiography;
• Non-emergency visits in a physician’s office, a
clinic or a hospital outpatient department;
• Inpatient hospital visits;
• Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)
encounters.

Source: AR Provider Manual, Section II: Physician/Independent
Lab/CRNA/Radiation Therapy Center, p. 71.

Source: (fetal echography and echocardiography): AR Provider
Manual, Section II: Hospital/CAH/End Stage Renal Disease, p. 32.
and Section II: Rural Health Clinics, p. 6.

Source (FQHC only): AR Provider Manual, Section II: Federally

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