- (a) To assure that outpatient behavioral health services care and services provided by certified behavioral health agencies comply with applicable laws, which require, among other things, that all care reimbursed by the Arkansas medical assistance program (Medicaid) must be provided efficiently, economically, only when medically necessary, and of a quality that meets professionally recognized standards of health care.
- (b) The requirements and obligations imposed by this section and 20 CAR §§ 706-102 – 706-401 are substantive, not procedural.