Office of the Commissioner

Alaska continually works with federal officials to secure the maximum federal funding possible for Medicaid services delivered to Alaska Natives through tribal facilities. In the early 1990’s the state worked with Region X in Seattle to convince the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services, formerly Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) www.cms.gov that the 100% federal matching should be made available to tribally owned and leased facilities.

Tribal Health Program staff continually work with other states that have American Indian populations in order to share information about federal activities on Indian health policy and coordinate efforts to advocate for favorable policy changes.

Resources:

• Indian Health Roundtable report (PDF 1.7Mb)
• Mark McClellan ltr 10-6-2005 (PDF 359k)
• MRT report (PDF 264k)
• Mcaid Ind hlth protections (Doc 24k)