Arkansas Code Title 20. Public Health and Welfare § 20-77-314. Definitions

(1) “Action” or “claim” means a complaint, demand letter, or any other notification given to a third party by the Department of Human Services, the medical assistance recipient, the recipient's attorney, or any person acting on behalf of the recipient that the department or the medical assistance recipient requests payment from a third party for damages to the medical assistance recipient for injury, disease, disability, or death for which a third party is or may be liable;

(3) “Third party” means an individual, entity, or a program that is or may be liable to pay all or part of the expenditures for medical assistance payments made by the department.