Medicaid exclusion screening requirements in Alaska
What Alaska Medicaid requires of the organizations that take part in it: whether the state keeps its own exclusion list, how often it expects you to check, what the penalties are, and how an action taken in another state reaches you here. Every claim on this page links to the source it came from.
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What Exclia screens for this state
Alaska’s own Medicaid exclusion list is rolling out to Exclia. The federal lists (OIG LEIE and SAM.gov) are screened today.
What the state requires
Routinely check the Alaska list and federal LEIE for participating employees and contractors.
The department directs Medicaid providers and people seeking program enrollment to routinely check both sources. The cited page does not specify a universal monthly screening interval. Follow requirements applicable to your program and provider agreement, and verify potential matches with Program Integrity.
Why monthly, and where the exposure comes from
The HHS Office of Inspector General publishes the federal exclusion list (the LEIE) monthly, and its guidance to providers is that screening staff and contractors each month is what best limits the risk of overpayment and civil monetary penalty liability. State Medicaid agencies are themselves required to check the LEIE no less frequently than monthly (42 C.F.R. § 455.436(c)(2)), which is the rhythm the lists move on.
The state’s own list
Alaska Excluded Provider List
Alaska keeps its own Medicaid exclusion list, separate from the federal OIG list. Searching one does not cover the other.
Program Integrity publishes its current Medicaid participation list. The publisher page links an August 2026 PDF, but automated retrieval of that original PDF remains unverified.
- Published by
- Alaska Department of Health Medicaid Program Integrity
- Refreshed
- Updated as providers are added or removed; no fixed interval stated., per the publishing agency.
What happens if it is not done
A provider must obtain official approval before resuming participation after an action period ends.
- The department requires an application for reinstatement and official notice approving it; an elapsed period alone does not establish restored Medicaid participation.
- For the conviction cases described on the page, Alaska Statute 47.05.240 requires proof of qualifications and credentials before participation.
The federal exposure behind the state requirement
Where a federal health care program pays for an item or service furnished, ordered, or prescribed by a person on an exclusion list, the OIG can seek repayment of what was paid, civil monetary penalties for each item or service claimed (a statutory $10,000, adjusted annually for inflation), and an assessment of up to three times the amount claimed. The standard is what the organization knew or should have known — which is why the date of your last check is the fact that matters.
How another state’s action reaches you here
Section 6501 of the Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(39), implemented at 42 C.F.R. § 455.416(c)) requires a state Medicaid agency to deny or end the enrollment of any provider that was terminated for cause on or after January 1, 2011 under Medicare, or under the Medicaid or CHIP program of any other state, and that appears in the federal termination database. In practice that means an action taken against a provider in one state reaches their participation in every other — so the list that matters to you is not only your own state's.
Common questions
Open the official Medicaid Program Integrity page and follow its current-list link. The link identified during this review points to an August 2026 PDF. Confirm the latest publication with the department rather than relying on an older search-index result.
No. A historical document can explain the program but cannot establish the present roster, removals or completeness. The August 2026 original PDF was not retrieved in this automated review; no row count or successful ingestion is claimed.
No. The department requires an application and an official approval notice. Verify the agency’s decision rather than inferring reinstatement from a date or an older document.
No. The publisher directs routine checks of the Alaska list and federal LEIE. They are separate sources; federal screening does not prove Alaska source coverage.
Check the current coverage page for actual activated data. A state guide or a public list does not establish live ingestion. Original PDF access, extraction and first activation remain unverified for Alaska.
Check one name against the federal lists, free
One name, no account, and the result states which sources it covered and which it did not. It is a spot check rather than monitoring — it does not satisfy a monthly requirement on its own.
Run a free checkOr do it for the whole roster, every month
Exclia screens every person and vendor on your roster each month against the sources we cover, and keeps the dated audit trail that shows you did it.
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This states what each state publishes and links to where it says it. It is not legal advice, and where your own obligations are unclear your counsel is the right reader of these sources.