John Pfeifer, Personal Representative of the Estate of Sarah Pfeifer

Summary

The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed the temporary denial of Sarah Pfeifer's Medicaid application, holding that the legislature validly applied the Medicaid asset-transfer penalty retroactively to her February 2007 gift. The court rejected takings, ex post facto, equitable-estoppel, equal-protection, and due-process challenges, and declined to reach federal preemption because state and federal law did not conflict. No separate opinions were filed.