Ark. Code § 17-92-901

Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.

Section 17-92-901 - Definitions

As used in this subchapter:

(1) "Home medical equipment, legend device, and medical gas supplier" means a person licensed to supply home medical equipment, medical gases, or legend devices, or any combination thereof, to patients on an order from medical practitioners licensed to order, use, or administer these products and to other licensed suppliers of home medical equipment, medical gases, or legend devices, or any combination thereof;

(2) "Home medical equipment services" means the delivery, installation, maintenance, replacement, or instruction, or any combination thereof, in the use of medical equipment used by a sick or disabled individual to allow the individual to be maintained in a noninstitutional environment;

(3) "Legend device" means a device which, because of any potential for harmful effect or the method of its use, is not safe except under the supervision of a practitioner;

(4)

(A) "Medical equipment" means technologically sophisticated medical devices, including, but not limited to:

(i) Oxygen and oxygen delivery systems;

(ii) Ventilators;

(iii) Respiratory disease management devices;

(iv) Electronic and computer-driven wheelchairs and seating systems;

(v) Apnea monitors;

(vi) Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator units;

(vii) Low air loss cutaneous pressure management devices;

(viii) Sequential compression devices;

(ix) Neonatal home phototherapy devices;

(x) Feeding pumps;

(xi) Electrically powered hospital beds; and

(xii) Infusion pumps.

(B) "Medical equipment" does not include:

(i) Medical equipment used or dispensed in the normal course of treating patients by hospitals, hospices, nursing facilities, or home health agencies;

(ii) Medical equipment used or dispensed by healthcare professionals licensed in Arkansas, provided that the professional is practicing within the scope of that professional's practice act;

(iii) Upper and lower extremity prosthetics and related orthotics; or

(iv) Canes, crutches, walkers, bathtub grab bars, standard wheelchairs, commode chairs, and bath benches;

(5) "Medical gas" means those gases and liquid oxygen intended for human consumption; and

(6) "Order" means an order issued by a licensed medical practitioner legally authorized to order medical gases or legend devices, or both.

Ark. Code § 17-92-901

Acts 1995, No. 1101, § 1.