Physician duties · PMHNP · New Mexico
Signing for a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner in New Mexico: what the physician takes on
No agreement is required, so the terms are whatever you both negotiate. Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners practice independently in New Mexico, so any agreement is voluntary.
PMHNPs are licensed as APRN Certified Nurse Practitioners (or, per Board rule, as APRN Clinical Nurse Specialists) with the same full independent-practice authority as any other NP population focus — no separate supervision framework. New Mexico rule requires ≥2 years of PMHNP prescribing experience for certain expanded authorizations (16.12.2 NMAC), a competency gate rather than a supervision requirement.
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
No proximity requirement
Same standard as general NPs — no physician proximity/availability requirement codified.
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 · controlled substances permitted
Psychiatric prescribing in practice skews toward Schedule II stimulants and Schedule IV benzodiazepines/hypnotics more heavily than general primary-care NP prescribing — not a different legal limit, reflected only in calculatorWeights below.
Written agreement
Not required
Unconditional, same as general NP — no collaborative or supervisory agreement is required.
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Licensee-only ownership required — Same as the general `np` entry — New Mexico professional corporations require same-profession ownership; PMHNPs are not treated differently.
Legal sources for these rules (2)
What physicians charge for this role
Typical monthly compensation in New Mexico
$500 – $600
Estimate for one Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Standard-tier state.
About New Mexico's rules
New Mexico has no corporate-practice-of-medicine doctrine (1987 A.G. opinion) — non-physician entities may employ physicians if clinical judgment isn't controlled — but professional corporations must still be single-profession owned (a PA/NP/etc. entity can't mix ownership with physicians). NP/CRNA/CNM/CNS practice independently with full prescriptive authority (Schedules II–V); PA remains the outlier requiring ongoing physician involvement.
Other clinicians in New Mexico: see the state overview.