Alaska Administrative Code
Title 7 - Health and Social Services
Part 8 - Medicaid Coverage and Payment
Chapter 145 - Medicaid Payment Rates
Article 10 - Payment Rates; Rural Health Clinic and Federally Qualified Health Center Services
7 AAC 145.739 - Definitions

Universal Citation: 7 AK Admin Code 145.739

Current through November 28, 2024

In 7 AAC 145.700 - 7 AAC 145.739,

(1) "charity care" means health care services that

(A) a health clinic does not expect to result in cash payments;

(B) result from a health clinic's policy to provide health care services free of charge to an individual who meets certain financial criteria; and

(C) are provided for by a health care provider, clinician, volunteer, or staff member, and for which the health care provider, clinician, volunteer or staff member does not expect to receive payment;

(2) "health clinic" has the meaning given in 7 AAC 140.229;

(3) "visit" means the aggregate of in-person and synchronous telehealth encounters, occurring on the same calendar day and at a single location, between the health clinic recipient and one or more rural health clinic professionals; for purposes of this paragraph, "aggregate of in-person and synchronous telehealthencounters" does not include

(A) multiple encounters in which, after the first encounter, the recipient suffers an additional illness or injury requiring additional diagnosis or treatment;

(B) an encounter for dental or mental health diagnosis or treatment that occurs on the same calendar day and single location as one or more encounters for medical diagnosis or treatment; or

(C) charity care;

(4) "adjusted Medicare cost report" means a base year's Medicare cost report that has been adjusted in accordance with 7 AAC 145.700 - 7 AAC 145.720.

Authority:AS 47.05.010

AS 47.07.069

AS 47.07.070

AS 47.07.073

AS 47.07.074

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