Author: Sue Bergstrom

State Error Results in $15 Million in Over-payments to Providers

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska health officials are ordering health care providers to pay back millions of dollars in Medicaid payments made in error. The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services is seeking to recoup about $15 million from about 1,100 health care providers, the Anchorage Daily News reported […]

Panel finds Alaska lawmaker violated ethics law

Panel finds Alaska lawmaker violated ethics law

    From the Associated Press By BECKY BOHRER JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A legislative ethics panel said it found by “clear and convincing evidence” that an Alaska lawmaker violated ethics law by disclosing the existence of a complaint that was considered confidential. At a public hearing Tuesday, Republican Rep. […]

Attention Unit 13 Federal Subsistence Hunters

Attention Unit 13 Federal Subsistence Hunters

Attention Unit 13 Federal Subsistence Hunters  A recent Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land status review has revealed that an additional 640 acres of lands North West of Pippin Lake, Alaska are unencumbered Federal public lands and are therefore open to Federal subsistence hunting. Permits for the Unit 13 Federal subsistence […]