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community-based waiver services provider. (f) The department will not pay for care coordination services provided by

(1) the recipient, a member of the recipient’s immediate family, the recipient’s representative, an individual with a duty to support the recipient under state law, a holder of power of attorney for the recipient, the recipient’s personal care assistant; or

(2) a care coordinator, if any home and community-based service included in the recipient’s support plan is determined by the department to result in a conflict of interest involving that care coordinator. (g) The department will recoup under 7 AAC 105.260 any payment for other home and community-based waiver services provided to a recipient by a care coordinator while that care coordinator provided ongoing care coordination under this section. (h) The care coordinator shall notify the department not later than seven days after the date of a recipient’s

(1) planned admission to a hospital or to a nursing facility; and

(2) discharge from a hospital or from a nursing facility. (i) Notwithstanding (b) of this section, the department will pay for additional support plans that have received a prior authorization. (j) In this section,

(1) “close business relationship” means

(A) a five percent or greater ownership, partnership, or equity interest in another home and community-based waiver services provider or its owner; or

(B) a five percent or greater ownership, partnership, or equity interest in any other business or commercial activity in which another home and community-based waiver services provider or its owner or administrator also has a five percent or greater ownership, partnership, or equity interest;

(2) “close familial relationship” means a relationship in which the care coordinator is

(A) the spouse, parent, sibling, or child of