Section 12.40.450. Authority to prescribe, order, administer, and dispense medications.

	(a)  A physician assistant who prescribes, orders, administers, or dispenses controlled substances must have a current Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration number, valid for that handling of that controlled substance on file with the department.  
	(b)  Repealed 9/1/2007.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  
		(1) primary collaborating physician's name;  
		(2) primary collaborating physician's DEA registration number;  
		(3) physician assistant's name; and  
		(4) physician assistant's DEA registration number.  
	(j)  In this section, unless the context requires otherwise,  
		(1) "order" means writing instructions on an order sheet to dispense a medication to a patient from an on-site pharmacy or drug storage area; for purposes of this paragraph, "on-site pharmacy" means a secured area that provides for the storage and dispensing of controlled substances and other drugs and is located in the facility where the physician assistant is practicing;  
		(2) "prescription" means a written document regarding a medication prepared for transmittal to a licensed pharmacy for the dispensing of the medication;  
		(3) "schedule," used in conjunction with a controlled substance, means the relevant schedule of controlled substances under 21 U.S.C. 812 (Sec. 202, Federal Controlled Substances Act).  

Authorities

08.64.100;08.64.107

Notes

Authority

AS 08.64.100 AS 08.64.107 Editor's note: An emergency repeal and readoption of 12 AAC 40.450 took effect March 16, 1998, Register 146. In reviewing the "permanent" regulation, the regulations attorney disapproved the last sentence of subsec. (a) of that section and made technical wording corrections throughout the section. The disapproved language was omitted, and the technical corrections appeared, in the "permanent" regulation as it was published in Register 147, October 1998. The section's history note does not reflect the changes made by the regulations attorney.

History

Eff. 1/13/80, Register 73; am 3/12/89, Register 109; am 4/27/97, Register 142; am 6/28/97, Register 142; am 3/16/98, Register 146; am 12/16/99, Register 152; am 10/14/2006, Register 180; am 9/1/2007, Register 183

References

12.40.450