PharmD · Oregon
Collaborative Practice Agreement for Pharmacists in Oregon
No. Pharmacists practice independently here. Oregon calls it a CDTM Protocol.
Oregon grants pharmacists direct statutory prescriptive authority for a Board-defined formulary (ORS 689.645: diabetic supplies, emergency insulin, albuterol, epinephrine, smoking-cessation aids, etc.) and for hormonal contraceptives (ORS 689.689) — grounded in statute and (for the formulary) a prior diagnosis by another prescriber, not a physician collaboration/CDTM agreement. A separate physician-agreement-based collaborative drug therapy management pathway was not confirmed in this research pass.
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
Neither statutory authority researched here extends to DEA-scheduled controlled substances; whether any separate Oregon pharmacist authority reaches controlled substances (e.g. naloxone, which is not scheduled) was not exhaustively checked.
Written agreement
Not required
Unconditional for the statutory formulary/contraceptive authority researched here — no physician agreement is required for either. Whether a distinct, agreement-based collaborative drug therapy management (CDTM) pathway also exists in Oregon (as in many other states) was not confirmed; treat as an open item rather than settled absence.
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Non-licensee ownership permitted — Drug outlets register with the State Board of Pharmacy (ORS 689.305) and may be corporate entities — ORS 689.305 contemplates employees of a registered corporation, implying non-pharmacist/corporate ownership is permitted, consistent with the typical 'pharmacist-in-charge retains professional control' model seen in other states. The specific Oregon statute/rule naming a 'pharmacist-in-charge' safeguard was not located in this research pass — confirm before relying on it.
Materially more permissive than the physician/PA/NP/APRN entity-ownership rules above.
Legal sources for these rules (4)
What a collaborating physician costs here
Typical monthly cost in Oregon
$500 – $600
Estimate for one Pharmacist. Standard-tier state.
About Oregon's rules
Oregon has no physician-supervision requirement for NP/CNS/CRNA and replaced PA 'supervision' with a non-supervisory 'collaboration agreement' (ORS 677.495-677.525, recodified by H.B. 4010, eff. June 6, 2024). CNM and PMHNP are population foci under the single NP license (OAR 851-050-0005), not separate license categories. CRNA/CNS entity co-ownership with physicians is unconfirmed — ORS 58.376 names only physicians, PAs, and NPs.
Other clinicians in Oregon: see the state overview.