PharmD · New Mexico
Collaborative Practice Agreement for Pharmacists in New Mexico
Yes, a written physician agreement is required. New Mexico calls it a Written Guidelines or Protocol.
Represents New Mexico's 'pharmacist clinician' credential under the Pharmacist Prescriptive Authority Act (§§ 61-11B-1 to -3, NMSA) — a nationally distinctive, more advanced tier than a typical CPA state, but still requires registering a named supervising physician and a protocol of collaborative practice with the New Mexico medical board, not just the pharmacy board. Base dispensing licensure needs no physician agreement and is out of scope here.
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
Separate prescribing terms required · no controlled-substance authority
Prescriptive authority is exercised 'in accordance with guidelines or protocol' registered with the medical board (16.19.4.18 NMAC); this research pass found no affirmative grant of controlled-substance prescribing under that protocol — coded False as the more conservative default given the absence of a confirmed grant, not a confirmed statutory bar. Verify with the Board of Pharmacy/Medical Board before relying on this.
Written agreement
Required
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Non-licensee ownership permitted — No pharmacist-ownership requirement was found in New Mexico pharmacy licensing statute/rule for this research pass — pharmacy ownership appears materially more permissive than the professional-corporation framework governing physicians/APRNs above.
Whether New Mexico requires a designated pharmacist-in-charge with retained professional control was not independently confirmed in this pass.
Legal sources for these rules (3)
- N.M. Stat. Ann. §§ 61-11B-1 to -3 — Pharmacist Prescriptive Authority Act
- 16.19.4 NMAC — New Mexico Board of Pharmacy Pharmacist Clinician Rule
- N.M. Admin. Code § 16.19.4.17-.18 — Pharmacist Cliniciansecondary
What a collaborating physician costs here
Typical monthly cost in New Mexico
$500 – $600
Estimate for one Pharmacist. 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.