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Authority: AS 18.05.010 AS 18.05.030 AS 18.05.040 Editor’s note: With Register 179, October 2006 and under the authority of AS 44.62.125, the regulations attorney changed obsolete terminology concerning persons with disabilities in conformity with ch. 25, SLA 2006. 7 AAC 23.140. Eligible diseases, defects, and conditions. (a) Except as otherwise described in this section, a disease, defect, or condition is eligible if in the judgment of the department the disease, defect, or condition

(1) has been present for at least six months, or has been present from birth; and

(2) severely impairs the child’s growth or development. (b) The following conditions are not eligible conditions, even if they meet the conditions described in (a) of this section:

(1) acute trauma;

(2) lacrimal duct obstruction;

(3) mastoiditis;

(4) respiratory distress syndrome;

(5) congenital pyloric stenosis;

(6) umbilical or inguinal hernia;

(7) dental conditions;

(8) hydrocele;

(9) cystitis;

(10) primary hypospadias that is a cosmetic defect only;

(11) infections of bone or joint;

(12) Caffey’s Disease;

(13) pectus excavatum that is a cosmetic defect only;

(14) learning disorders;