Physician duties · CNM · Oklahoma
Signing for a Certified Nurse-Midwife in Oklahoma: what the physician takes on
The agreement is mandatory for the clinician, which makes its duties mandatory for you. Oklahoma does not name a specific instrument.
This research pass found CNM grouped with CNP/CNS under H.B. 2298 in secondary summaries of the 2025 reform, but could not independently confirm CNM-specific statute text (as opposed to the general APRN framework) — treat the exact threshold and any CNM-specific carve-out as unconfirmed.
Independent practice requires: ≥6,240 hours of supervised clinical practice, then Board of Nursing approval — secondary sources describe CNM as covered by the same H.B. 2298 (2025) framework as CNP/CNS.
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
below the 6,240-hour independent-prescriptive-authority threshold: Available remotely (no on-site requirement)
Coded the same as general NP pending CNM-specific confirmation.
after Board approval of independent prescriptive authority: No proximity requirement
No ongoing proximity/availability requirement once independent.
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
Separate prescribing terms required · controlled substances permitted
Coded the same as general NP — Schedule I–II excluded, Schedule III–V limited to a 30-day supply — pending CNM-specific confirmation.
Written agreement
Required
Coded the same as general NP — required only below the 6,240-hour threshold, per secondary sources; not independently confirmed for CNM specifically.
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Non-licensee ownership permitted — Same as the general CPOM note above — Oklahoma has no CPOM doctrine.
Legal sources for these rules (1)
What physicians charge for this role
Typical monthly compensation in Oklahoma
$500 – $600
Estimate for one Certified Nurse-Midwife. This state's proximity rules add a small premium.
About Oklahoma's rules
HB 2298 (APRNs) and HB 2584 (PAs), both 2025 and effective Nov. 1, 2025, created new hours-based independent-practice pathways in a state with no prior pathway for either. Being this recent, secondary sources conflict on whether a 6-provider physician-ratio cap (OAC 435:10-13-2) still applies post-reform — flagged per-provider below rather than guessed. Oklahoma has no corporate-practice-of-medicine doctrine (Okla. A.G. Op. 77-168).
Other clinicians in Oklahoma: see the state overview.