Alaska Administrative Code
Title 12 - Professional Regulations
Part 1 - Boards and Commissions Subject to Centralized Licensing
Chapter 16 - Board of Chiropractic Examiners
Article 5 - General Provisions
12 AAC 16.990 - Definitions
Universal Citation: 12 AK Admin Code 16.990
Current through February 24, 2025
(a) In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise,
(1) "appropriate
treatment or services" means treatment or services performed, because of a
substantiated and properly diagnosed condition, that is consistent with that
diagnosis as reviewed by the peer review committee appointed under
12 AAC 16.400;
(2) "board" means the Board of Chiropractic
Examiners;
(3) "department" means
the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development;
(4) "licensee" means a chiropractic physician
licensed under AS 08.20;
(5)
"reasonable and appropriate cost of treatment" means that charges submitted for
services performed are necessary and reasonable charges in the judgment of the
peer review committee appointed under
12 AAC 16.400;
(6) "criminal history record information" has
the meaning given in
AS
12.62.900.
(7)
"general supervision" means the directing of the authorized
activities by a licensed chiropractic physician and does not require the
physical presence of the supervisor when directing those activities;
(8) "personal supervision" means that the
licensed chiropractic physician is physically present at the same office
location where the services are being furnished.
(b) In AS 08.20.900,
(1) "prescription drug" means a drug that
(A) under federal law, before being dispensed
or delivered, is required to be labeled with either of the following
statements:
(i) "Caution: Federal law
prohibits dispensing without prescription";
(ii) "Caution: Federal law restricts this
drug to use by, or on the order of, a licensed veterinarian"; or
(B) is required by an applicable
federal or state law or regulation to be dispensed only under a prescription
drug order or is restricted to use by practitioners only;
(2) "surgery"
(A) means the use of a scalpel, sharp cutting
instrument, laser, electrical current, or other device to incise or remove
living tissue;
(B) does not include
venipuncture or the removal of foreign objects from external tissue.
Authority:AS 08.20.055
AS 08.20.900
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