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Alaska: the business of practice

What Alaska’s statute, administrative rules and chiropractic board publish on eight topics of running a practice, quoted as published, each with its citation as printed, its source and the date we read it. Read on 9 October 2026.

Advertising · Titles and claims · Prepaid care and financial arrangements · Discounts, free services and inducements · Record retention · Assistants and delegation · Corporate practice and ownership · Telehealth

1. Advertising

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  • (a) The board may impose a disciplinary sanction on a person licensed under this chapter or refuse to issue a license under this chapter when the board finds that the personSec. 08.20.170(a) · www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (3) advertised professional services in a false or misleading manner;Sec. 08.20.170(a)(3) · www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • 12 AAC 16.980. “MISREPRESENTATION” DEFINED. In AS 08.20.170, “misrepresentation” means12 AAC 16.980 · www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (1) the use of any advertising in which untruthful, exaggerated, improper, misleading or deceptive statements are made;12 AAC 16.980(1) · www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • At the request of the Federal Trade Commission and with the concurrence of the Alaska Attorney General, the Board of Chiropractic Examiners has repealed two provisions of the Alaska Administrative Code, effective August 31, 1986.Appendix A: Notice on Superiority Advertising (no section number printed) · www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • One of the repealed paragraphs, 12 AAC 16.910(b)(2), prohibited the advertising of techniques or modalities to infer or imply superiority of treatment or diagnosis by their use.Appendix A: Notice on Superiority Advertising (no section number printed) · www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • The other repealed paragraph, 12 AAC 16.910(b)(4), prohibited print advertising claiming superiority over or greater skill than other practitioners.Appendix A: Notice on Superiority Advertising (no section number printed) · www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • These provisions were both repealed so that the advertising practices previously prohibited would no longer be considered “misrepresentation” and therefore would be allowed.Appendix A: Notice on Superiority Advertising (no section number printed) · www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf · read 9 October 2026
Further provisions in the same documents: Appendix A: Notice on Superiority Advertising (no section number printed) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); 12 AAC 16.980(2) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); Sec. 08.20.170(a)(2) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); 12 AAC 16.980(3) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf). Not read on 9 October 2026: www.commerce.alaska.gov · boardofchiropracticexaminers.aspx · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker"). Not read on 9 October 2026: commerce.alaska.gov · BoardofChiropracticExaminers · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker").

2. Titles and claims

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  • Sec. 08.20.155. Professional designation. Notwithstanding the provisions of AS 08.02.110 relating to specialist designations, a person licensed under this chapter may not designate a specialty unless the person has completed a postgraduate specialty program at an accredited school approved by the board and the person has passed a certification exam for the specialty approved by the board. All specialty designations must include the term “chiropractic”Sec. 08.20.155 · www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (b) Upon approval by the board, the department will issue a new license with the specialty designation.12 AAC 16.046(b) · www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf · read 9 October 2026
  • (h) A person may not use the title “Certified Chiropractic Clinical Assistant” or another designation indicating status, including abbreviations, or hold oneself out directly or indirectly as a certified chiropractic clinical assistant, unless that person has met the requirements under (d), (e), or (f) of this section.12 AAC 16.052(h) · www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf · read 9 October 2026
Further provisions in the same documents: 12 AAC 16.046(a) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); 12 AAC 16.047 (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); 12 AAC 16.048 (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); Sec. 08.20.100(a) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf). Not read on 9 October 2026: www.commerce.alaska.gov · boardofchiropracticexaminers.aspx · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker"). Not read on 9 October 2026: commerce.alaska.gov · BoardofChiropracticExaminers · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker").

3. Prepaid care and financial arrangements

not found Not read on 9 October 2026: www.commerce.alaska.gov · boardofchiropracticexaminers.aspx · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker"). Not read on 9 October 2026: commerce.alaska.gov · BoardofChiropracticExaminers · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker"). Not found in what we read on 9 October 2026. Pages read: www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf. Read the whole of the board’s own copy of AS 08.20 and 12 AAC 16 (Rev. 03/13/2025, with Appendix A) and searched its text for prepa, prepaid, advance, care plan, package, contract, refund, unearned, financing and escrow; none addresses prepayment, care plans, refunds or financing terms. Absence in what we read is not absence in the jurisdiction’s law.

4. Discounts, free services and inducements

quoted Further provisions in the same documents: 12 AAC 16.920(a)(13) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); Sec. 08.20.185(a) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf). Not read on 9 October 2026: www.commerce.alaska.gov · boardofchiropracticexaminers.aspx · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker"). Not read on 9 October 2026: commerce.alaska.gov · BoardofChiropracticExaminers · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker").

5. Record retention

quoted Further provisions in the same documents: Sec. 08.20.185(c) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); 12 AAC 16.920(a)(6) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf). Not read on 9 October 2026: www.commerce.alaska.gov · boardofchiropracticexaminers.aspx · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker"). Not read on 9 October 2026: commerce.alaska.gov · BoardofChiropracticExaminers · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker").

6. Assistants and delegation

quoted Further provisions in the same documents: Sec. 08.20.168(b)(1)-(3) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); 12 AAC 16.052(a)(1)-(3) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); 12 AAC 16.052(g) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); 12 AAC 16.052(d) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); 12 AAC 16.052(e) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); 12 AAC 16.052(f) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); 12 AAC 16.052(i) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); Sec. 08.20.055(4) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); Sec. 08.20.100(b)(10) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); Sec. 08.20.170(a)(5) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); Sec. 08.20.195 (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); Sec. 08.20.210 (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); Sec. 08.20.900(8) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); Sec. 08.20.900(5) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); Sec. 08.20.900(5)(A), (B) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf); 12 AAC 16.042(b) (www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf). Not read on 9 October 2026: www.commerce.alaska.gov · boardofchiropracticexaminers.aspx · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker"). Not read on 9 October 2026: commerce.alaska.gov · BoardofChiropracticExaminers · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker").

7. Corporate practice and ownership

not found Not read on 9 October 2026: www.commerce.alaska.gov · boardofchiropracticexaminers.aspx · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker"). Not read on 9 October 2026: commerce.alaska.gov · BoardofChiropracticExaminers · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker"). Not found in what we read on 9 October 2026. Pages read: www.commerce.alaska.gov · ChiropracticStatutes.pdf. Read the whole of the board’s own copy of AS 08.20 and 12 AAC 16 (Rev. 03/13/2025, with Appendix A) and searched its text for corporat, own, ownership, entity, partnership, employ, professional service, limited liability and management; the hits concern a licensee employing clinical assistants, interns and preceptors (AS 08.20.100(b)(10), (11)) and none addresses who owns a practice or employs a chiropractor. Absence in what we read is not absence in the jurisdiction’s law.

8. Telehealth

Shown only where the jurisdiction publishes a provision specific to chiropractic.

unreadable Not read on 9 October 2026: www.commerce.alaska.gov · boardofchiropracticexaminers.aspx · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker"). Not read on 9 October 2026: commerce.alaska.gov · BoardofChiropracticExaminers · HTTP 403 (bot challenge page, "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker"). Not read on 9 October 2026: www.commerce.alaska.gov · CHIagenda_2020_03.pdf · HTTP 404. Not read on 9 October 2026: www.commerce.alaska.gov · boardofchiropracticexaminers.aspx · a 2020 board agenda listed by a search on the State of Alaska's domain carries an item on telemedicine; the agenda answered HTTP 404 and the board page that would hold the board's statement answered HTTP 403, so the text was not read.

Documents read for this entry

The jurisdiction is the authority on everything here. These pages quote what the statute, the rules and the board publish and the date we read them; they do not interpret it. Laws and rules change. Confirm anything you intend to act on with the board.