Is an exam required before a patient can be treated in Alaska?

AS 08.64.364 reaches the pre-treatment examination from the opposite direction to most states: rather than requiring an exam, it tells the Medical Board when it may NOT discipline a physician or physician assistant for prescribing without a physical examination. The safe harbor sets two conditions: the prescriber or another licensed provider in the practice must be available for follow-up care, and the prescriber must ask the person to consent to sending the encounter records to their primary care provider — and send them if the person consents — where the prescriber is not that provider. Two limits matter for a med spa: the drug must not be a controlled substance for the (a) safe harbor to apply on its own terms, and no physician or physician assistant may prescribe, dispense or administer in response to an internet questionnaire or email to a person with whom they have no prior physician-patient relationship. The chapters quoted here scope that bar to physicians and physician assistants; they do not establish what binds other licensees.