Arkansas Code Title 20. Public Health and Welfare § 20-77-2802. Definitions

(1) “Air ambulance services” means services authorized and licensed by the Department of Health to provide care and air transportation of patients;

(2) “Ambulance services” means services authorized and licensed by the department to provide care and transportation of patients upon the streets and highways of Arkansas;

(3) “Emergency medical services” means:

(4) “Medical transportation” means emergency medical services and nonemergency ambulance services provided through ambulance services and air ambulance services;

(5) “Medical transportation provider” means a licensed provider of emergency medical transportation, as defined by 42 C.F.R. § 433.56(a)(18), as it existed on January 1, 2021;

(6) “Net operating revenue” means the gross revenues earned for providing medical transportation in Arkansas, excluding amounts refunded to or recouped, offset, or otherwise deducted by a patient or payer for medical transportation;

(8) “Specialty-hospital-based ambulance services” means ambulance services provided by an acute care general hospital that limits healthcare services primarily to children and qualifies as exempt from the Medicare prospective payment system regulation;

(9) “Upper payment limit” means the lesser of the customary charges of the medical transportation provider or the prevailing charges in the locality of the medical transportation provider for comparable services under comparable circumstances, calculated according to methodology in an approved state plan amendment for the Arkansas Medicaid Program; and