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(1) a community behavioral health services provider;

(2) a mental health physician clinic that meets the requirements of (d) of this section;

(3) a psychologist who

(A) meets the requirements of 7 AAC 110.550; and

(B) provides psychological testing and evaluation under 7 AAC 135.110(g);

(4) a licensed behavior analyst who

(A) meets the requirements of 7 AAC 135.300; and

(B) provides autism services under 7 AAC 135.350; or

(5) a licensed behavior analyst group practice that

(A) meets the requirements of 7 AAC 135.300; and

(B) provides autism services under 7 AAC 135.350.

(6) a licensed mental health professional who meets the requirements of 7 AAC 135.910. (b) If a community behavioral health services provider is administratively, organizationally, financially, or otherwise connected to a health facility, as defined in AS 47.07.900, the community behavioral health services provider must account for income and expenses separately from the health facility to verify that the cost used by the department to determine the health facility’s prospective payment rate under 7 AAC 150 is excluded from the operating cost of the community behavioral health services provider. (c) If a community behavioral health services provider is operated by a governmental or corporate entity that concurrently operates a health facility, the health facility may provide administrative and other support services to the community behavioral health services provider. However, the department will not include the cost of providing those behavioral health services in determining the health facility’s prospective payment rate under 7 AAC 150. If a physician or other health professional is employed by the health facility and by the community behavioral health services provider, the physician or other health professional must be employed under a separate written agreement with the community behavioral health services provider that requires that the cost of services provided by the physician or other health care professional be

(1) separately accounted for by the community behavioral health services provider; and

(2) excluded from the costs considered by the department in determining the health facility’s prospective payment rate under 7 AAC 150. (d) The department will pay for behavioral health clinic services provided by a mental health physician clinic only if the

(1) mental health physician clinic is operated by one or more physicians licensed under