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 3 - Hospice Care Services
7 AAC 140.289 - Definitions

(1) "continuous home care" means care provided during a period of crisis in which a recipient requires constant care to reduce or manage acute medical symptoms as necessary to maintain a recipient at home;

(2) "general inpatient care" means care provided in a participating hospice inpatient unit or a participating general acute care hospital or nursing facility that meets the standards for staffing and recipient areas in 42 C.F.R. 418.98 or 42 C.F.R. 418.100, adopted by reference in 7 AAC 160.900, for procedures necessary for pain control or acute or chronic symptom management that cannot feasibly be provided in another setting;

(3) "inpatient respite care" means a short-term admission of no more than five days for inpatient care in a facility that meets the standards in 42 C.F.R. 418.98(b), adopted by reference in 7 AAC 160.900, in order to provide relief to the caregiver; "inpatient respite care" does not include care provided to a recipient residing in a long-term care facility;

(4) "interdisciplinary group" means a group of individuals designated by a hospice who provide or supervise the care and services offered by the hospice;

(5) "routine home care" means any combination of the services listed in 7 AAC 140.275(c) (1) - (8) provided to a recipient electing hospice care that are not provided at the level and intensity of continuous home care.