Alaska Administrative Code
Title 12 - Professional Regulations
Part 1 - Boards and Commissions Subject to Centralized Licensing
Chapter 40 - State Medical Board
Article 5 - Physician Assistants
12 AAC 40.450 - Authority to prescribe, order, administer, and dispense medications

(a) A physician assistant who prescribes, orders, administers, or dispenses controlled substances must

(b) Repealed 9/1/2007.

(c) A physician assistant with a valid DEA registration number may order, administer, dispense, and write a prescription for a schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substance only with the authorization of the physician assistant's primary collaborating physician. The authorization must be documented in the physician assistant's current collaborative plan on file with the division.

(d) The physician assistant's authority to prescribe may not exceed that of the primary collaborating physician as documented in the collaborative plan on file with the division.

(e) A physician assistant with a valid DEA registration number may request, receive, order, or procure schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substance supplies from a pharmaceutical distributor, warehouse, or other entity only with the authorization of the physician assistant's primary collaborating physician. If granted this authority, the physician assistant is responsible for complying with all state and federal inventory and record keeping requirements. The authorization must be documented in the physician assistant's current collaborative plan on file with the division. Within 10 days after the date of issue on the form, the physician assistant shall provide to the primary collaborating physician a copy of each DEA Form 222 official order form used to obtain controlled substances.

(f) A physician assistant may prescribe, order, administer, or dispense a medication that is not a controlled substance only with the authorization of the physician assistant's primary collaborating physician. The authorization must be documented in the physician assistant's current collaborative plan on file with the division.

(g) A graduate physician assistant licensed under this chapter may not prescribe, order, administer, or dispense a controlled substance.

(h) Termination of a collaborative plan terminates a physician assistant's authority to prescribe, order, administer, and dispense medication under that plan.

(i) A prescription written under this section by a physician assistant must include the

(j) In this section, unless the context requires otherwise,