(a) Except for a fraternal benefit society, a health care insurer that offers, issues for delivery, delivers, or renews in this state a health care insurance plan providing coverage for five or more employees of an employer in the group market shall offer a covered employee or the employee’s dependent coverage for the treatment of alcoholism or drug abuse.
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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 21.42.365

  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(b) In this section, “alcoholism or drug abuse” means an illness characterized by

(1) a physiological or psychological dependency, or both, on alcoholic beverages or controlled substances as defined in Alaska Stat. § 11.71.900; or
(2) habitual lack of self-control in using alcoholic beverages or controlled substances to the extent that the person‘s health is substantially impaired or the person’s social or economic function is substantially disrupted.
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