Physician duties · PharmD · New Jersey
Signing for a Pharmacist in New Jersey: what the physician takes on
The agreement is mandatory for the clinician, which makes its duties mandatory for you. New Jersey calls the instrument a Written Protocol.
Represents NJ's pharmacist drug-therapy-management Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA) tier (N.J.S.A. 45:14-61; N.J.A.C. 13:35-6.27), not ordinary dispensing licensure, which needs no physician agreement and is out of scope here. Naloxone prescribing (2023 law) and self-administered hormonal contraceptives (N.J.S.A. 45:14-67.9, via a statewide Board of Pharmacy/BME-approved protocol) are separate authorities that do NOT require an individual CPA with a specific physician — see agreementRequiredNote.
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
Percentage set by agreement · Annually
No fixed chart-review percentage is codified — the collaborating physician must 'establish a method for monitoring both compliance with the collaborative practice agreement and clinical outcomes,' with the protocol itself reviewed at least annually (N.J.A.C. 13:35-6.27). Percentage is therefore omitted rather than set to 0.
Meeting cadence
Annually
Each protocol must be reviewed at least once per year by the physician and pharmacist to determine whether it should be renewed, modified, or terminated (N.J.A.C. 13:35-6.27); no in-person format is specified.
Prescriptive authority
Covered by the practice agreement · no controlled-substance authority
Physician notification timing, chart-update interval, and a protocol-change notice window must all be specified in the protocol itself — no statewide default is fixed.
Written agreement
Required
True for the drug-therapy-management CPA tier this entry represents. But naloxone dispensing and hormonal-contraceptive furnishing are authorized under separate, statewide standardized protocols rather than a per-pharmacist agreement with a named physician — a pharmacist can exercise those two authorities without entering any individual CPA at all.
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Non-licensee ownership permitted — This research pass did not locate a confirmed NJ statute restricting retail-pharmacy ownership to licensed pharmacists — treated here as consistent with the common multi-state pattern (non-pharmacist/corporate ownership allowed, with a designated pharmacist-in-charge retaining professional control over dispensing), but this specific citation is unverified for New Jersey and should be confirmed before relying on it.
Materially more permissive than the medical-PC CPOM regime governing PA/NP/CRNA/CNM/CNS above, consistent with how other states in this dataset treat pharmacy ownership — but flagged as unconfirmed rather than sourced, unlike those other entries.
Legal sources for these rules (5)
- N.J.S.A. 45:14-61 — Pharmacy Practice Act, collaborative practice agreements
- N.J.A.C. 13:35-6.27 — Standards for collaborative practice for drug therapy management with licensed pharmacistssecondary
- N.J.S.A. 45:14-67.9 — Pharmacist furnishing of self-administered hormonal contraceptives
- N.J.A.C. 13:39-14.1 — Protocol for pharmacists furnishing self-administered hormonal contraceptivessecondary
- P.L. 2023, c.2 (S275) — pharmacist naloxone prescribing authority
What physicians charge for this role
Typical monthly compensation in New Jersey
$500 – $600
Estimate for one Pharmacist. Standard-tier state.
About New Jersey's rules
S2996/A4052 (signed 3/30/2026) grants APNs in primary/behavioral-health population foci independent practice at ≥5,000 hours, ending the COVID-era waiver — but implementing regulations were not yet adopted at this writing, so several details below rely on bill text/press coverage, not a finalized rule. NJ's Professional Service Corporation Act (N.J.S.A. 14A:17-1 et seq.) is notably strict CPOM: only physicians may hold equity in a medical PC.
Other clinicians in New Jersey: see the state overview.