Arkansas Code Title 20. Public Health and Welfare § 20-77-1907. Notice of assessment

(a)(1) The Division of Medical Services of the Department of Human Services shall send a notice of assessment to each hospital informing the hospital of the assessment rate, the hospital's net patient revenue calculation, and the estimated assessment amount owed by the hospital for the applicable fiscal year.

(2) Except as set forth in subdivision (a)(3) of this section, annual notices of assessment shall be sent at least forty-five (45) days before the due date for the first quarterly assessment payment of each fiscal year.

(3) The first notice of assessment shall be sent within forty-five (45) days after receipt by the division of notification from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that the payments required under § 20-77-1908 and, if necessary, the waiver granted under 42 C.F.R. § 433.68 have been approved.

(c)(1) If a hospital provider operates, conducts, or maintains more than one (1) hospital in the state, the hospital provider shall pay the assessment for each hospital separately.

(2) However, if the hospital provider operates more than one (1) hospital under one (1) Medicaid provider number, the hospital provider may pay the assessment for the hospitals in the aggregate.

(d)(1) For a hospital subject to the assessment imposed under § 20-77-1902 that ceases to conduct hospital operations or maintain its state license or did not conduct hospital operations throughout a state fiscal year, the assessment for the state fiscal year in which the cessation occurs shall be adjusted by multiplying the annual assessment computed under § 20-77-1902 by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days during the year that the hospital operated and the denominator of which is three hundred sixty-five (365).