On April 12, 2017, the Department of Health & Social Services proposed to adopt regulation changes in Title 7 of the Alaska Administrative Code dealing with cost containment measures through rate and service reductions, no inflation rate for fiscal year 2018, and no rebasing for fiscal year 2018 for services that receive customary inflation.

The Department of Health & Social Services is posting this notice with the response to questions regarding the proposed regulation changes. The questions and response are attached to this posting. Please see below, under Attachments, for the Department’s response.

The proposed regulation changes are available at https://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/Notices/View.aspx?id=185384 (original notice); and https://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/Notices/View.aspx?id=185831 (supplemental notice).