Alaska Administrative Code

(a) Not later than one week after receiving the results of a blood lead test that exceeds the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention blood lead reference value, dated December 2, 2022, and adopted by reference as amended from time to time micrograms per decilite…

The department may investigate places of employment and study conditions in a workplace in which one or more workers may have been exposed to an infectious agent or exposed to a disease or other condition of public health importance. Notes 7 AAC 27.015 Eff. 3/28/84, Register 89; …

A public health agent may conduct an administrative inspection of any establishment and examine the records of any establishment that may involve a threat to public health in the conduct of an epidemiological investigation. An epidemiological investigation may include the examina…

(a) A health care provider who attends to a person with a disease, injury, or other condition of public health importance that is known or suspected to be a result of the person's occupation or work activities shall report the disease, injury, or other condition to the department…

(a) A health care provider that attends an individual hospitalized as a result of an outbreak or unusual incidence of a disease or condition known or suspected to be related to exposure to an environmental contaminant shall report the disease or other condition to the department …

(a) A facility or entity that is required under federal law to report health care-associated infection data to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), shall grant the department access to the following reported …

(a) The standards for animal disease quarantine are (1) if a case of rabies or other animal disease dangerous to the health of individuals is reported as existing in an area, the department may, independently or in cooperation with federal and other state agencies, investigate to…

(a) The standards for animal rabies vaccination are the following: (1) the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Compendium of Animal Rabies Prevention and Control, 2011, prepared by the National Association of State Pu…

(a) Areas of Infection.Whenever the commissioner of health and social services finds that animals of any kind in a specific area are afflicted with a disease contagious to man and are liable to spread that disease from that area so as to endanger the public health he will, in his…

Notes 7 AAC 27.040 Eff. 6/10/62, Register 6; am 8/21/74, Register 51; repealed 3/25/99, Register 149; am 7/1/2022, Register 242 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior q…

Notes 7 AAC 27.050 8/21/74, Register 51 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to com…

Notes 7 AAC 27.060 Eff. 6/10/62, Register 6; am 8/21/74, Register 51; repealed 12/29/2006, Register 180 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More c…

Notes 7 AAC 27.070 Eff. 6/10/62, Register 6; am 8/21/74, Register 51; repealed 1/19/96, Register 137 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comp…

Notes 7 AAC 27.075 Eff. 8/21/74, Register 51; repealed 1/19/96, Register 137 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be …

Notes 7 AAC 27.080 Eff. 6/10/62, Register 6; am 8/21/74, Register 51; repealed 2/10/99, Register 149 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comp…

(a) Each infant born in this state must have administered to the infant by a physician, nurse, or certified direct-entry midwife, one of the following prophylactic measures within two hours after birth onto the inside surface of the infant's lower eyelids: (1) repealed 9/18/2009;…

(a) An assessable entity or other program participant shall participate in the statewide immunization program. (b) Each year, an assessable entity or other program participant shall report to the council the number of its covered individuals. An assessable entity shall report to …

(a) Using the procedure in the Plan of Operation, adopted by reference in 7 AAC 27.130, each year the department will calculate the total assessments collected to determine whether there is a surplus from overpayments. (b) If there is a surplus, the department will (1) reduce the…

(a) The council shall meet at the call of the chair, in person, at least twice a year, and as required under the Plan of Operation adopted by reference in 7 AAC 27.130. The chair shall give council members at least two weeks notice before a scheduled meeting. (b)A council member …

The council's Plan of Operation, dated February 20, 2018, is adopted by reference. Click here to view image Notes 7 AAC 27.130 Eff. 4/17/2019, Register 230, April 2019 The Plan of Operation may be reviewed at the Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health…

(a) An assessable entity or other program participant may appeal in writing a decision under AS 18.09.200 and 18.09.220 regarding the assessment rate or an assessment invoice. (b) The commissioner or the commissioner's designee will hear an appeal under AS 18.09.220(d) and this s…

(a) A provider that wants to receive a vaccine under the state immunization program for an uninsured adult may opt in to pay an assessment for the uninsured adult using a form provided by the state vaccine assessment council. Notes 7 AAC 27.140 Eff. 4/17/2019, Register 230, April…

(a) The council may request information from an assessable entity or other program participant for determining the assessment. If an assessable entity rents a network or processes a claim for another assessable entity, the information requested may include data from records relat…

In AS 18.09.200 - 18.09.240 and 7 AAC 27.115 - 7 AAC 27.149, (1) "assessment" means a medical expense that is.(A) to be paid by an assessable entity, including a third-party administrator on behalf of its client; (B) a liability of a benefit plan covering a state resident; and (C…

Notes 7 AAC 27.210 Repealed 9/2/82. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compare…

Notes 7 AAC 27.213 Eff. 9/2/82, Register 83; am 2/10/99, Register 149; am 12/29/2013, Register 208, January 2014; repealed 4/16/2022, Register 242, July 2022 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most …

Notes 7 AAC 27.215 Eff. 7/17/87, Register 103; repealed 12/29/2006, Register 180 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will…

Notes 7 AAC 27.220 Repealed 9/2/82. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compare…

(a) Standard serological tests for the purposes of AS 18.15.150-18.15.180 are RPR, VDRL, FTA-ABS, MHATP, or other tests that provide similar or better standards of accuracy and that have been approved by the department. (b) Laboratories that have complied with the guidelines of 7…

Notes 7 AAC 27.360 Repealed 8/9/84. State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compare…

These procedures are adopted for designation of isolated areas, remote from population areas, not served by regularly licensed physicians and dentists because of geographical isolation or costly travel conditions. Notes 7 AAC 27.370 Eff. 9/11/66, Register 22 Authority:AS 08.36.25…

East of a line roughly paralleling the Yukon-Alaska Border twenty-five miles west of McCarthy from the southern coast to a point 25 miles south of Wood Chopper; thence westerly to a point 25 miles north of Rampart; thence southwesterly to the eastern end of Iliamna Lake; thence n…

(a) An annual permit will be issued to designated dentists and physicians assigned to the U.S. Public Health Service who serve isolated areas. Permits will be issued, upon receipt by the Commissioner of Health and Social Services, of a letter from the U.S. Public Health Service M…

Any person living in a designated isolated area and meeting the above criteria (sec. 380 of this chapter) and who is not eligible under provision of federal law may receive medical and dental care from physicians and dentists employed by the U.S. Public Health Service, to the sam…

(a) The screening of newborn children for congenital disorders under 7 AAC 27.510 - 7 AAC 27.590 must be performed at a single laboratory designated by the department. The screening must be performed on a specimen of the newborn child's blood collected as specified in 7 AAC 27.53…

(a) Responsibility for collection and submission of specimens resides with the health care provider attending the newborn child. If a newborn child is not attended by health care provider, the department encourages the newborn child's parent or guardian to present the newborn chi…

(a) The minimum blood specimen collection requirements for the screening described in 7 AAC 27 .510 are the following:(1) one specimen must be collected before the newborn child is 48 hours of age; (2) if the screening of the initial specimen shows an abnormal result for one or m…

The department will provide a health care provider with specimen collection materials when ordered through the program manager for the newborn bloodspot screening (NBS) program. A request for these materials must be directed to the NBS program. Notes 7 AAC 27.540 Eff. 12/30/77, R…

(a) Screening test results must be returned to the health care provider as indicated on the return address portion of the screening test form. (b) Screening test results must indicate whether the specimen was normal or abnormal, for each test performed. (c) The designated laborat…

(a) Diagnostic testing must be conducted on a newborn child with abnormal screening test results when required by the designated laboratory. A health care provider who ordered a screening test under 7 AAC 27.530 shall arrange for a newborn child with an abnormal result to have th…

The department will appoint a committee to annually review the results of the newborn bloodspot screening program, consider addition or deletion of tests based on experience in this state and on newly developed tests recommended by the United States Department of Health and Human…

Notes 7 AAC 27.575 Eff. 7/13/94, Register 131; repealed 12/29/2006, Register 180 State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will…

If the department has information that leads it to believe that a hospital, birthing center, home birth service, physician, certified nurse midwife, or certified direct entry midwife is not complying with 7 AAC 27.510 - 7AAC 27.570 or 12 AAC 14.530, the department will report the…

In 7 AAC 27.510 - 7 AAC 27.590 (1) "department" means the Department of Health and Social Services; (2) "designated laboratory" means a laboratory designated by the department to perform screening of blood specimens for congenital disorders; (3) "health care provider" means any o…

If a newborn is transferred to a hospital before a hearing screening occurs, the transferring hospital shall ensure that the department is notified of the transfer. Notes 7 AAC 27.600 Eff. 1/17/2008, Register 185 Authority:AS 18.05.040 AS 47.20.300 AS 47.20.310 AS 47.20.320 State…

(a) The protocol for the hearing screening required under AS 47.20.310 includes (1) a list of the staff for the screening program, and a summary of the responsibilities of each staff member; (2) if a hospital technician or hospital volunteer performs the screening, a description …

(a) The information that is required to be reported under AS 47.20.320, with respect to a hearing screening, (1) must be reported at least weekly, using the reporting and tracking system developed by the department; and (2) includes (A) the name of the child; (B) the child's date…

In 7 AAC 27.600 - 7 AAC 27.629, "primary care provider" means a licensed physician, advanced nurse practitioner, or physician assistant who is the primary source of health care for the infant, or a primary community health aide who is the primary source of health care for the inf…

(a) A provider of screening services under AS 18.15.205 shall use the screening protocol described in the department's Critical Congenital Heart Disease Screening Program: Screening Protocol, revised as of January 22, 2014 and adopted by reference. Click here to view Screening Pr…

A provider of screening services under AS 18.15.205 and 7 AAC 27.630 shall submit the following information to the department semiannually on a screening report form provided by the department: (1) the identifier for the facility where the child was born; (2) the identifier for t…