2019 Alaska Statutes
Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions
Chapter 25. Public Assistance
Article 2. General Relief Assistance.
Sec. 47.25.205. Priority of general relief medical assistance.
If the department finds that the cost of medical assistance for all persons eligible under AS 47.25.120 - 47.25.300 will exceed the amount allocated in the state budget for that assistance for the fiscal year, the department shall eliminate coverage for medical services in the following order:
(1) treatment of speech, hearing, and language disorders;
(2) optometrists' services and eyeglasses;
(3) occupational therapy;
(4) emergency dental services for adults;
(5) prosthetic devices not including dentures;
(6) medical supplies and equipment;
(7) physical therapy;
(8) outpatient laboratory and outpatient x-ray services;
(9) ambulatory surgical center services;
(10) nonemergency medical transportation;
(11) outpatient physician services;
(12) outpatient hospital services;
(13) intermediate care facility services;
(14) skilled nursing facility services;
(15) emergency medical transportation;
(16) pharmaceuticals;
(17) inpatient physician services;
(18) inpatient hospital services.
