Physician duties · PharmD · Alaska
Signing for a Pharmacist in Alaska: what the physician takes on
The agreement is mandatory for the clinician, which makes its duties mandatory for you. Alaska calls the instrument a Written Protocol.
Represents Alaska's Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA) tier for expanded 'patient care services' (AS 08.80.337), not base dispensing licensure. A narrower scope (immunizations, wellness services, statewide standing orders) is independently authorized without any agreement; broader drug-therapy management is permanently CPA-dependent with no independence pathway.
What you take on as the physician
The rules the physician relationship has to follow. Each fact comes from the statute or board rule listed under sources.
Proximity
Not codified — left to the agreement
Supervision ratio
Not codified — no cap on file
Chart review
Not codified — left to the agreement
Meeting cadence
Not codified — left to the agreement
Prescriptive authority
Separate prescribing terms required · no controlled-substance authority
AS 08.80.337 explicitly states the CPA does not authorize a pharmacist to prescribe a drug they are not otherwise authorized to prescribe — the CPA extends therapy-management authority (initiate/modify/monitor per protocol), not independent scheduled-drug prescribing. No Alaska-specific pharmacist controlled-substance prescriptive authority was found beyond the separately-authorized immunization/emergency-medication carve-out. The CPA itself must be submitted to and approved by the Board of Pharmacy before taking effect.
Written agreement
Required
Required only for the expanded 'patient care services' scope (initiating/modifying/monitoring drug therapy per protocol). The narrower immunization/wellness/standing-order scope is independently authorized without any agreement.
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Non-licensee ownership permitted — Pharmacy ownership is governed separately under AS 08.80 pharmacy permit/licensure requirements; no pharmacist-ownership mandate was confirmed in this research pass beyond the general Alaska Professional Corporation Act framework if organized as a PC.
Whether Alaska imposes a pharmacist-in-charge control safeguard analogous to other states was not separately confirmed in this research pass.
Legal sources for these rules (1)
What physicians charge for this role
Typical monthly compensation in Alaska
$500 – $600
Estimate for one Pharmacist. Standard-tier state.
About Alaska's rules
All four APRN roles (NP, CRNA, CNM, CNS) share one statutory framework (AS 08.68.850, 12 AAC 44) with FULL independent practice and no collaborative agreement. PA law is mid-transition: SB 89 would add a 4,000-hour conditional pathway effective ~Sept. 16, 2026, but its enrolled text couldn't be verified — current codified law (below) still requires a standing collaborative plan with no experience-based exit.
Other clinicians in Alaska: see the state overview.