Arizona AHCCCS statutory framework

What changed

Arizona Revised Statutes Section 36-2903 establishes the Arizona health care cost containment system and assigns administration duties including access planning, contractor oversight, quality assurance, fraud prevention, coordination of benefits, enrollment, claims resolution, and rules for transitions and county long-term care requests. Section 36-2903.01 directs uniform application forms, streamlined eligibility, expedited eligibility and enrollment for hospitalized applicants, eligibility appeals, hearing processes, federal funding, covered-service rules, and cost-sharing authority. Section 36-2904 governs prepaid capitation coverage, contractor assignment, services before enrollment for determined-eligible people, health-plan contracts, claims timing, primary care, and member notification of family-planning services. AHCCCS's Title 36 Chapter 29 index identifies the chapter's articles, including AHCCCS, ALTCS, Qualified Medicare Beneficiary, Children's Health Insurance Program, and Comprehensive Care for the Elderly Program.

Why it matters

Caregiver-facing benefits guidance needs to know which public authority owns AHCCCS administration, eligibility, health-plan routing, appeals, covered services, and long-term care before connecting families to applications, notices, providers, or appeal routes.

Who it touches

Family caregivers, Care providers and plans, People receiving careAHCCCS applicants, AHCCCS members, Arizona Long Term Care System members, family caregivers, authorized representatives, health plans, providers

What it does

Gives people a right or protection

• Arizona Revised Statutes Section 36-2903
• Arizona Revised Statutes Section 36-2903.01
• Arizona Revised Statutes Section 36-2904
• AHCCCS Arizona Revised Statutes Title 36 Chapter 29 index

Last reviewed Jul 4, 2026. This is information, not legal advice; check the source for the current text.