Alaska Administrative Code
Title 7 - Health and Social Services
Part 8 - Medicaid Coverage and Payment
Chapter 140 - Medicaid Coverage; Facility and Facility-Based Services
Article 10 - Free-Standing Birth Centers
7 AAC 140.810 - Free-standing birth center services and payment conditions

(a) The department will pay for the use of a free-standing birth center under this section in accordance with the payment rate established in 7 AAC 145.680.

(b) The department will pay for the use of a free-standing birth center under 7 AAC 145.680 only when a delivery occurs at the facility. The department will not pay for labor-only services.

(c) Newborn care is considered a component of labor and delivery services provided by a free-standing birth center and may not be billed separately.

(d) For purposes of billing for free-standing birth center services, the date of service is the date of delivery.

(e) Nurse midwife and direct-entry midwife services provided in a free-standing birth center are not payable to the center and must be billed separately.