Ark. Code § 19-5-1047

Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.
Section 19-5-1047 - Arkansas Medicaid Rebate Program Revolving Fund - Arkansas Medicaid Rebate Program Revolving Fund Act of 1991 - Definition
(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Arkansas Medicaid Rebate Program Revolving Fund Act of 1991".
(b) As used in this section, the term "drug manufacturer" means any person, partnership, corporation, or other institution or entity which is engaged in the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion, or processing of drugs, either directly or indirectly by extraction from the substance of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, or in the packaging, repackaging, labeling, relabeling, and distribution of drugs.
(c) There is established a fund to be known as the "Arkansas Medicaid Rebate Program Revolving Fund" which is created on the books of the Treasurer of State. The fund shall be administered by the Division of Medical Services.
(d)
(1) The Department of Human Services is authorized to receive moneys in the form of rebates from drug manufacturers as established by contract or pursuant to the provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, Pub. L. No. 101-508.
(2) Any moneys accruing to the department through these rebates shall be deposited into the State Treasury as nonrevenue receipts to be credited to the fund and transferred by the Secretary of the Department of Human Services to the Department of Human Services Medicaid Paying Accounts Account to be used solely for paying pharmacy claims in the Arkansas Medicaid Drug Rebate Program.
(3) Any general revenues that accrue as a result of the receipt of the Medicaid rebate shall be transferred to the Department of Human Services Grants Fund Account.

Ark. Code § 19-5-1047

Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 5164, eff. 7/1/2019.
Acts 1991, No. 1023, §§ 1-4; 1993, No. 289, § 1.