Alaska Administrative Code
Title 7 - Health and Social Services
Part 1 - Administration
Chapter 12 - Facilities and Local Units
Article 12 - General Provisions
7 AAC 12.780 - Radiological service

(a) A facility that provides radiological services, with the exception of frontier extended stay clinics, must comply with the requirements of this section.

(b) If a facility which provides radiological services does not have a radiologist on its staff, a radiologist must provide consultation services to the facility at least twice a year to assure high quality of the diagnostic radiological service.

(c) A physician or a radiologist must have clinical responsibility for the radiological services.

(d) Radiological services may be performed only upon the order of a person lawfully authorized to diagnose and treat illness.

(e) If an x-ray examination is to be provided to a patient, a request by the attending physician for the x-ray examination must contain a diagnosis or a tentative diagnosis, or a concise statement of the reasons for the x-ray examination.

(f) A report of a radiological examination must be filed in the patient's medical record and maintained in the radiology unit.

(g) Diagnostic x-ray film processing must conform to the time and temperature recommendations of the manufacturer.

(h) All individuals who are employed or involved in providing radiological services or who may be exposed to radiation shall wear devices that monitor radiation exposure.

(i) A facility must keep records identifying employees who have been exposed to radiation and the amount of exposure for each employee.

(j) A facility which provides nuclear medicine services must report the type of those services provided to the department and must conform, unless specifically excepted by law, to the applicable standards of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 10 C.F.R. Parts 0 - 170, as in effect April 30, 1983, and 18 AAC 85.

(k) Radiation therapy may be given only under the direction of a radiation therapist using equipment which is specifically designed for radiation therapy.

(l) A facility which uses x-ray equipment must conform to the radiation protection standards set out in 18 AAC 85.010 - 18 AAC 85.770.

(m) In this section, "nuclear medicine services" means medical procedures that use radio isotopes or other atomic entities in the treatment or diagnosis of illness or disease.