diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/contact-points/utils.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/contact-points/utils.ts
index 79a71733fb7..38a69fd3b72 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/contact-points/utils.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/contact-points/utils.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 import { countBy, split, trim, upperFirst } from 'lodash';
 import { ReactNode } from 'react';
 
+import { config } from '@grafana/runtime';
 import {
   AlertManagerCortexConfig,
   GrafanaManagedContactPoint,
   GrafanaManagedReceiverConfig,
+  MatcherOperator,
   Route,
 } from 'app/plugins/datasource/alertmanager/types';
 import { NotifierDTO, NotifierStatus, ReceiversStateDTO } from 'app/types';
@@ -17,6 +19,8 @@ import { getOnCallMetadata, ReceiverPluginMetadata } from '../receivers/grafanaA
 
 import { RECEIVER_META_KEY, RECEIVER_PLUGIN_META_KEY, RECEIVER_STATUS_KEY } from './useContactPoints';
 
+const AUTOGENERATED_RECEIVER_POLICY_MATCHER_KEY = '__grafana_receiver__';
+
 export function isProvisioned(contactPoint: GrafanaManagedContactPoint) {
   // for some reason the provenance is on the receiver and not the entire contact point
   const provenance = contactPoint.grafana_managed_receiver_configs?.find((receiver) => receiver.provenance)?.provenance;
@@ -126,10 +130,27 @@ export function enhanceContactPointsWithMetadata(
     };
   });
 }
+export function isAutoGeneratedPolicy(route: Route) {
+  const simplifiedRoutingToggleEnabled = config.featureToggles.alertingSimplifiedRouting ?? false;
+  if (!simplifiedRoutingToggleEnabled) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  if (!route.object_matchers) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  return (
+    route.object_matchers.some((objectMatcher) => {
+      return (
+        objectMatcher[0] === AUTOGENERATED_RECEIVER_POLICY_MATCHER_KEY && objectMatcher[1] === MatcherOperator.equal
+      );
+    }) ?? false
+  );
+}
 
 export function getUsedContactPoints(route: Route): string[] {
   const childrenContactPoints = route.routes?.flatMap((route) => getUsedContactPoints(route)) ?? [];
-  if (route.receiver) {
+  // we don't want to count the autogenerated policy for receiver level, for checking if a contact point is used
+  if (route.receiver && !isAutoGeneratedPolicy(route)) {
     return [route.receiver, ...childrenContactPoints];
   }