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Authority: AS 47.05.010 AS 47.07.025 AS 47.07.040 7 AAC 100.042. Medical support cooperation. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, an applicant for Medicaid who is 18 years of age or older and who is a parent, or who can legally assign rights to medical support for a child in the applicant’s care, must cooperate with the child support services agency of the Department of Revenue in accordance with this section. This subsection also applies to an adult who is a Medicaid recipient under any APA-related Medicaid eligibility category identified in 7 AAC 100.002(b), (d), or (e) and who is applying for Medicaid on behalf of that recipient’s own child or a child for whom the recipient is a guardian. (b) For the purpose of determining Medicaid eligibility under this chapter, the following individuals are not required to cooperate with the child support services agency:

(1) a pregnant woman who is applying only for herself through the end of her postpartum period under 7 AAC 100.304;

(2) an applicant who is under 21 years of age and is applying for medical assistance only for the applicant, regardless of the applicant’s living arrangement;

(3) an applicant who is under 18 years of age who is applying on behalf of the applicant’s own child;

(4) an applicant who is applying on behalf of a child who is an American Indian, Alaska Native, or other beneficiary of health care services from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service, or from a tribal organization funded in whole or in part by the Indian Health Service, if those services are reasonably available;

(5) a custodial parent who is applying on behalf of a child who is already covered under either the custodial or noncustodial parent’s third-party health insurance;

(6) a caretaker relative who cannot legally assign rights to payment for medical care for a child in the caretaker relative’s care for whom the caretaker relative is applying;

(7) an individual for whom the department has found, under 7 AAC 100.044, good cause for refusal to cooperate with the child support services agency. (c) For the purpose of determining Medicaid eligibility under this chapter, cooperation with the child support services agency is not required in the following circumstances where there is no noncustodial parent:

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(1) a pregnant woman who is applying only for herself through the end of her postpartum period under 7 AAC 100.304;

(2) an applicant who is under 21 years of age and is applying for medical assistance only for the applicant, regardless of the applicant’s living arrangement;

(3) an applicant who is under 18 years of age who is applying on behalf of the applicant’s own child;

(5) a custodial parent who is applying on behalf of a child who is already covered under either the custodial or noncustodial parent’s third-party health insurance;

(6) a caretaker relative who cannot legally assign rights to payment for medical care for a child in the caretaker relative’s care for whom the caretaker relative is applying;