A provider that is enrolled under 7 AAC 105.200 and providing services as a long-term care facility, as a home and community-based waiver services provider, or as a residential supported-living services provider licensed under AS 47.32 as an assisted living home is responsible for collecting from the recipient or from the recipient's representative, on behalf of the recipient, the amount determined under 7 AAC 100.554 as the recipient's cost-of-care liability. The department will reduce its payment to a provider by the amount of the recipient's cost-of-care liability, even if the recipient or the recipient's representative, on behalf of the recipient, does not pay the cost-of-care liability to the provider.

(Eff. 7/20/2007, Register 183; am 1/1/2011, Register 196; am 8/1/2020, Register 235; am 8/1/2021, Register 239)

Authority: AS 47.05.010, AS 47.07.020, AS 47.07.040