Physician duties · PharmD · Kansas
Signing for a Pharmacist in Kansas: what the physician takes on
The agreement is mandatory for the clinician, which makes its duties mandatory for you. Kansas calls the instrument a Written Collaborative Practice Agreement.
Represents Kansas's optional pharmacist-physician Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA) tier for collaborative drug therapy management, not ordinary pharmacist licensure — base dispensing needs no agreement. The collaborating physician remains responsible for the patient's care and for directing/supervising the pharmacist; the pharmacist may not diagnose, alter the physician's orders, or independently prescribe.
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
Covered by the practice agreement · no controlled-substance authority
Under a CPA, the pharmacist performs delegated drug-therapy management per the collaborating physician's order/standing order/protocol (K.S.A. 65-1626a; K.A.R. 68-7-22) — not independent DEA-registered controlled-substance prescribing. May not diagnose/treat disease, alter physician orders, or independently prescribe. Whether CPA terms may extend to controlled substances was not confirmed in this pass.
Written agreement
Required
Only required if the pharmacist and physician elect to engage in collaborative drug therapy management — a pharmacist's base license and general dispensing authority need no agreement at all (K.S.A. 65-1626a; K.A.R. 68-7-22).
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Non-licensee ownership permitted — No pharmacist-ownership requirement was identified for Kansas pharmacy permits in this pass — not independently confirmed against a specific statute/reg; treat as consistent with the typical non-restrictive pharmacy-ownership pattern seen in other states rather than a settled Kansas-specific finding.
Materially more permissive than the healing-arts CPOM regime governing PA/APRN entities above, if confirmed.
What physicians charge for this role
Typical monthly compensation in Kansas
$500 – $600
Estimate for one Pharmacist. Standard-tier state.
About Kansas's rules
Senate Sub. for H.B. 2279 (eff. July 1, 2022) made Kansas a full-practice-authority state for all APRN categories (NP/PMHNP/CRNA/CNM/CNS) — no collaborative practice agreement, supervising physician, or prescribing protocol is required, with no experience threshold. The Kansas Medical Society has publicly disputed how far Board of Nursing regulations implementing this reform extend, calling some language an unauthorized expansion into medical practice — an unresolved legal/political dispute, not settled law. PAs are unaffected by this reform and remain supervised.
Other clinicians in Kansas: see the state overview.