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Arkansas DHS and Medicaid present multiple rule changes on long-term care, pharmacy scope and mental‑health services
Summary
Department of Human Services and Medicaid officials briefed the Senate committee on several rule updates implementing recent Acts: changes to Miller income trust rules, non-emergency medical transportation coverage, expanded pharmacist scope, extension of Tier 1 mental-health counseling from 3 to 10 visits, lab/x‑ray benefit limits, and PANS/PANDAS treatment coverage.
Mark White and Mary Franklin of the Department of Human Services summarized several rule changes affecting long-term services and Medicaid policy.
Mary Franklin said the Miller income trust rules will be revised so a client’s income is "no longer required to be transferred except to the extent that is needed to be transferred, to make the client income eligible." She added that the rules will allow court-ordered child and spousal support payments to be deducted from patient liability and that property transferred by beneficiary deed will no longer be subject to estate recovery as part of implementation of the cited Act.
Elizabeth Pittman, Director for the Division of Medical Services, presented five Medicaid rules and said the first implements Act 444 (the Non‑Emergency Medical Transportation Act). "The first rule we have…
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