Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 71-5-101 (2026)
Short title
✓ current as of May 2026
This part may be cited as and shall be known as the "Medical Assistance Act of 1968."
Acts 1968, ch. 551, § 1; T.C.A., §§ 14-1901, 14-23-101.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 18
cases, 1990–2019 · leading case: In Re Est. of Ardell Hamilton Trigg, 368 S.W.3d 483 (Tenn. 2012).
In Re Est. of Ardell Hamilton Trigg, 368 S.W.3d 483 (Tenn. 2012). “1968)) (codified as amended at Tenn.Code Ann. §§ 71-5-101 to -119 (2004 & Supp.”
Stewart v. Sewell, 215 S.W.3d 815 (Tenn. 2007). “See generally the "Medical Assistance Act of 1968,” Tenn.Code Ann. §§ 71-5-101 to -199 (2004); River Park Hosp.”
Smith v. Chattanooga Med. Investors, Inc., 62 S.W.3d 178 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2001). “A state’s plan for medical assistance must provide for making available to qualified recipients nursing facility services (other than services for an institution for mental diseases).”
Linton Ex Rel. Arnold v. Carney Ex Rel. Kimble, 779 F. Supp. 925 (M.D. Tenn. 1990). “Tennessee participates in Title XIX for the purpose of operating such a medical assistance program (“Medicaid”), pursuant to T.C.A. § 71-5-101 et seq. [previously § 14-23-101 et seq.”
United States v. Anderson, 271 F. Supp. 3d 950 (M.D. Tenn. 2017). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 71-5-182 . In Tennessee, the Medicaid program is administered through TennCare.”
Baptist Hosp. v. Tennessee Departments of Health & Fin. & Admin., 982 S.W.2d 339 (Tenn. 1998). “4 Tenn.Code Ann. §§ 71-5-101 et seq. We have reviewed the hospitals’ complaint and the entire record on appeal.”
Cassandra HUGHLETT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SHELBY Cnty. HEALTH CARE CORP., Defendant-Appellant, 940 S.W.2d 571 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1996). “The medical expense payments were made pursuant to Tennessee’s “Medical Assistance Act of 1968” codified as T.C.A. § 71-5-101, et *573 seq. (1995). The 1968 Act is intended “to make possible medical assistance to those recipients determined to be eligible under this chapter to…”
Epperson v. Resource Healthcare of Am., Inc., 566 F. App'x 433 (6th Cir. 2014). “§ 1396r(b)(2) and Tenn.Code Ann. § 71-5-101, et seq. Defendant admitted that an ISP is required in order to receive federal funding and conceded at oral argument that adherence to the ISP is required under the law.”
In Re Est. of Daughrity, 166 S.W.3d 185 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2004). “Tenn.Code Ann. § 71-5-101 (2003). Accordingly, Tennessee is required to comply with 42 U.”
Latimer v. Robinson, 338 F. Supp. 2d 841 (M.D. Tenn. 2004). “The TennCare program assigns each enrollee to a private managed care organization (“MCO”) and pays each MCO a fixed monthly amount, referred to as a capitation payment, for each TennCare beneficiary enrolled in the MCO’s health plan.”
Linton ex rel. Arnold v. Comm'r of Health & Env't, 973 F.2d 1311 (6th Cir. 1992). “§ 1396 1 for the purpose of operating its Medicaid program pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 71-5-101 et seq. Approximately seventy percent of the cost of the Tennessee Medicaid program is paid by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) of the United States Department of…”
United States v. Anesthesia Servs. Assocs., PLLC (M.D. Tenn. 2019). “Through its TennCare program, Tennessee participates in the Medicaid program pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 71-5-101 through -199.”
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