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(i) current medical condition or physical or mental disabilities are sufficiently severe that performing that service, procedure, or test on an outpatient basis or in an ambulatory surgical center would seriously endanger the recipient’s health; or
(ii) recent medical history indicates that performing that service, procedure, or test on an outpatient basis or in an ambulatory surgical center would seriously endanger the recipient’s health;
(D) recipients who do not require or who no longer require acute inpatient care; however, the department will make a payment to the hospital for accommodation when no long-term care bed is available, if the department has approved the level of care appropriate for the recipient in situations involving a swing bed or administrative-wait bed;
(E) custodial care related to court commitments; patients confined to a hospital under a court commitment for any reason will be covered for payment only to the extent medical necessity exists for inpatient hospital care;
(F) recipients remaining beyond the length of stay authorized under 7 AAC 140.320;
(G) recipients pending discharge when hospital care is no longer required;
(H) days of care due to failure to promptly request or perform necessary diagnostic studies, medical-surgical procedures, or consultations;
(I) disability examinations, except that the department will pay for outpatient tests ordered by a physician as part of
(i) an initial disability examination in accordance with 7 AAC 40.180; or
(ii) a review of a disability determination in accordance with 7 AAC 40.190;
(J) evaluative or periodic checkups, examinations, or immunizations that are connected with the participation in, enrollment in, attendance at, or accomplishment of a program or activity unrelated to the recipient’s physical or mental health or rehabilitation, except mammograms;
(6) organ transplants and related services, and dental implants, except that the department will make payment for organ transplants and requisite related medical care for
(A) kidney and corneal transplants; prior authorization is not required;
(B) skin and bone transplants for which the department has given prior authorization;
(C) bone marrow transplants for which the department has given prior authorization;