Physician duties · PharmD · Utah
Signing for a Pharmacist in Utah: what the physician takes on
The agreement is mandatory for the clinician, which makes its duties mandatory for you. Utah calls the instrument a Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreement.
Represents Utah's voluntary Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreement (CPPA) tier under § 58-17b, not ordinary pharmacist licensure — base dispensing and statutory protocol-based authority (e.g. naloxone, hormonal contraceptives) need no physician agreement and are out of scope here. Entering a CPPA is voluntary for both pharmacist and practitioner; no board-certification/residency requirement or numeric per-physician cap was found.
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 · controlled substances permitted
Statute does not specify a schedule-level ceiling for CPPA prescribing — treat as agreement-defined rather than assuming a specific limit.
Written agreement
Required
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Non-licensee ownership permitted — No pharmacist-ownership requirement — § 58-17b-302 requires every pharmacy to have a designated pharmacist-in-charge who shares professional responsibility with the owner 'regardless of the form of the business organization,' implying corporate/non-pharmacist ownership is permitted.
Materially more permissive than the medical/APRN PC/PLLC regime above.
Legal sources for these rules (2)
What physicians charge for this role
Typical monthly compensation in Utah
$500 – $600
Estimate for one Pharmacist. Standard-tier state.
About Utah's rules
S.B. 36 (2023) eliminated the physician-collaboration/contract requirement for ALL APRN roles (NP, CRNA, CNM, CNS), not just NPs — Utah is a full-independence state across the APRN scope. PAs remain on a separate, hours-tiered collaboration model (Utah Code § 58-70a-307) with no numeric ratio cap or chart-review percentage codified.
Other clinicians in Utah: see the state overview.