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ALASKA · CARE PROGRAM

Personal Care Services (PCS and Community First Choice)

Personal care assistants and agency staff in agency-based and consumer-directed PCS and Community First Choice personal care; one set of Conditions of Participation covers both.

PCS · ON FILE
Registries named
7
Required
6
Expected
1
Screened by ezOIG
3 of 7
Rules checked
October 15, 2026

Required checks

Named by a regulation, a statute or the state's Medicaid agency

  1. List of Excluded Individuals/Entities

    HHS Office of Inspector General

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Federal exclusion check against the HHS-OIG list
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before the worker provides any service or sees health information; routinely after, as Medicaid Program Integrity asks
    BASIS
    PCS and CFC PCS Provider Conditions of Participation (Rev. 9/1/22) § B.8, adopted by reference (edition dated July 1, 2022) in 7 AAC 160.900(d)(55)

    The provider may not allow an employee, volunteer, or contractor to provide any services to recipients or to have access to protected health information until the provider has ... confirmation that the individual’s name does not appear on either of the following lists: i. Alaska Medical Assistance Excluded Provider List; and ii. List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE)

    Read the source health.alaska.gov

  2. Alaska Medical Assistance Excluded Provider List

    Alaska Department of Health, Medicaid Program Integrity

    SCREENED BY EZOIG State Medicaid exclusion list check
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before the worker provides any service or sees health information; routinely after, as Medicaid Program Integrity asks
    BASIS
    PCS and CFC PCS Provider Conditions of Participation (Rev. 9/1/22) § B.8, adopted by reference (edition dated July 1, 2022) in 7 AAC 160.900(d)(55); 7 AAC 10.905(f)(2)(B)

    The provider may not allow an employee, volunteer, or contractor to provide any services to recipients or to have access to protected health information until the provider has ... confirmation that the individual’s name does not appear on either of the following lists: i. Alaska Medical Assistance Excluded Provider List

    Read the source health.alaska.gov

  3. Sex Offender/Child Kidnapper Registry

    Alaska Department of Public Safety

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry blocks automated access
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before hire, by the department's Background Check Program; again at each five-year renewal
    BASIS
    7 AAC 10.915(a)(2)

    the department will screen a request for a background check through ... (2) the Alaska Sex Offender/Child Kidnapper Registry that the Department of Public Safety maintains under AS 18.65.087

    Read the source law.cornell.edu

  4. National Sex Offender Public Website

    U.S. Department of Justice

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry's terms forbid automated searches
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before hire, as a barrier condition in the background check; again at each five-year renewal
    BASIS
    7 AAC 10.905(f)(2)(C)

    constitute a 10-year barrier: ... placement on one or more of the following lists or registries ... (C) the United States Department of Justice's Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW)

    Read the source law.cornell.edu

  5. Registry of Certified Nurse Aides

    Alaska Board of Nursing (Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing)

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry blocks automated access
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before hire, by the department's Background Check Program; again at each five-year renewal (findings of abuse, neglect or misappropriation)
    BASIS
    7 AAC 10.915(a)(1)

    the department will screen a request for a background check through (1) the registry of certified nurse aides under AS 08.68.333

    Read the source law.cornell.edu

  6. Professional License Search

    Alaska Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry blocks automated access
    WHEN
    AT HIRE At hire, agency-based personal care assistants
    BASIS
    7 AAC 125.090(a)(6), (b)

    may not have a health care provider license or certification currently denied or revoked ... A personal care services agency that manages an agency-based program must implement a process that ensures the individuals hired as personal care assistants are qualified under (a) of this section.

    Read the source law.cornell.edu

Expected checks

Standard practice, or implied by a provider's enrollment duties; no rule names them outright

  1. SAM.gov exclusions

    General Services Administration

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Federal exclusion check against SAM.gov
    WHEN
    AT HIRE At hire; periodically after (standard practice)
    BASIS
    Standard practice for Alaska Medicaid providers; no Alaska rule names SAM

Also required

Not registry lookups; ezOIG doesn't run these
  • Fingerprint-based background check through the Background Check Program; the agency may not bill for a PCA without a valid check in the department's database (7 AAC 125.090(c), (g))
  • Civil history review by the department: child and vulnerable-adult protective findings, Medicaid fraud and licence actions (AS 47.05.325, 47.05.330; 7 AAC 10.905(f)(3))
  • Background check valid five years while the name stays marked in APSIN; the provider verifies it at association and annually (7 AAC 10.910(c)-(d))
  • Three letters of reference for agency-based PCAs (7 AAC 125.090(b)(1))
  • CPR and first aid every two years; medication-assistance and restrictive-intervention training (7 AAC 125.090(d))
  • PCA individually enrolled with Alaska Medicaid as a rendering provider (7 AAC 105.200(b)(7); 7 AAC 125.090(a)(4))

Why some registries are not screened yet

The registry blocks automated access
The registry's website turns away automated lookups. We don't work around that, so for now your staff search it themselves.
The registry's terms forbid automated searches
The registry's terms, or the law behind it, rule out automated or third-party searches, so ezOIG doesn't run them.

Guidance, not legal advice

This page summarizes ezOIG's research into Alaska's rules for this program, checked against the regulations as of October 15, 2026. Rules change, and an agency's own contract or license can add to them. Confirm what applies to you with Alaska Department of Health (Division of Health Care Services; Senior and Disabilities Services) or your own counsel before relying on it.

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