PharmD · Nevada
Collaborative Practice Agreement for Pharmacists in Nevada
Yes, a written physician agreement is required. Nevada calls it a Collaborative Practice Agreement.
Represents Nevada's pharmacist Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA) tier for drug-therapy management, not ordinary dispensing licensure, which needs no agreement and is out of scope here. Any Nevada-licensed pharmacist and any licensed practitioner may enter a CPA; patient informed written consent is required.
What the collaboration must look like
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
Narrow exception: a pharmacist separately registered under NRS 639.28079 may prescribe/dispense controlled substances for medication-assisted treatment (e.g. buprenorphine) — that authority runs through its own registration, not the general CPA.
Written agreement
Required
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Non-licensee ownership permitted — No pharmacist-ownership requirement was found in Nevada pharmacy licensing statute/rule for this research pass — pharmacy ownership appears materially more permissive than the NRS Ch. 89 professional-entity framework governing physicians/APRNs above.
Whether Nevada requires a designated pharmacist-in-charge with retained professional control was not independently confirmed in this pass.
Legal sources for these rules (2)
- Nev. Rev. Stat. § 639.2623 — Collaborative Practice Agreement; Authority; Requirements; Controlled-Substance Exclusionsecondary
- Nev. Rev. Stat. § 639.28079 — Pharmacist Registration for Medication-Assisted Treatment (narrow controlled-substance exception)
What a collaborating physician costs here
Typical monthly cost in Nevada
$500 – $600
Estimate for one Pharmacist. Standard-tier state.
About Nevada's rules
Nevada has an active corporate-practice-of-medicine doctrine (NRS 89.070) limiting professional-entity ownership to the licensed profession rendering the service — a full-practice-authority NP may independently own a med-spa-type entity, but PAs are not enumerated as eligible owners. NPs/CNMs/CNSs share a 2,000-hour APRN practice-authority threshold (NRS 632.237); CRNAs are separately and explicitly supervised (NRS 632.2397).
Other clinicians in Nevada: see the state overview.