Indiana Written Collaborative Practice Agreement for Nurse Practitioners

No proximity requirement

No proximity, radius, or reachability standard is codified for APRNs. IC 25-23-1-19.4(c) requires only that the practice agreement 'set[] forth the manner in which' the APRN and the licensed practitioner 'will cooperate, coordinate, and consult with each other' — the parties define availability themselves. Coded NONE for absence of a codified distance rule; this is emphatically NOT independent practice (see `agreementRequired` above).

5% of charts · As needed (documentation of prescribing practices submitted to the collaborating practitioner within 7 days)

848 IAC 5-1-1(a)(7) requires the written practice agreement to describe 'the time and manner' of the licensed practitioner's review of the APRN's prescribing practices, with documentation submitted within seven (7) days and including at least a five percent (5%) random sampling of the charts and medications prescribed. Frequency is coded AS_NEEDED because the rule fixes the SIZE of the sample and the submission deadline but leaves the review cycle to the agreement — this is not a monthly or quarterly mandate. Confirmed current: the rule's history line shows 'Readopted filed 7/31/2024.' This is a prescriptive-authority requirement; a non-prescribing APRN is not subject to it.

Every 6 months, in person or via telehealth

No scheduled physician-APRN meeting is codified at all. BIANNUAL is coded for the only fixed recurring cycle located: prescriptive authority expires October 31 of the odd-numbered year following its grant or renewal and renews on a two-year cycle (IC 25-23-1-19.5(c)), and 848 IAC 5-1-3 requires a current signed and dated written collaborative practice agreement at each renewal. Read this as a two-yearly agreement-refresh obligation, not a meeting cadence.

Covered by the practice agreement · controlled substances permitted

No Indiana-specific schedule restriction (e.g. a Texas-style Schedule II hospital/hospice limit) was located for APRNs in this pass. One narrow prohibition is visible only indirectly: every recent full-practice-authority bill (HB 1116, HB 1129, SB 60) proposed to ALLOW an APRN to prescribe a Schedule II controlled substance 'for weight reduction or to control obesity,' which implies that prohibition currently exists — but the underlying section was not located and read in this pass, so it is flagged rather than coded. Verify before relying on it.

Licensee-only ownership required — IC 25-22.5-1-2(a)(22) excludes from the Medical Practice Act a 'health care organization whose members, shareholders, or partners' are licensed as any of a named list that includes 'a registered or licensed practical nurse' and 'a certified nurse midwife.' Since IC 25-23-1-1(b) defines every Indiana APRN role as a registered nurse practicing in a specialty role, this file reads that list as reaching APRN-owned entities — a materially better ownership position than Texas's APRNs have, who are omitted from Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 301.012 entirely. FLAGGED AS AN INFERENCE: no Board of Nursing or Medical Licensing Board statement was found confirming the reading. A purely lay (unlicensed) owner is not on the § 2(a)(22) list at all, hence nonLicenseeOwnershipAllowed=False.

This analysis governs entity ownership only. It does not extend to any service outside the APRN's own scope — notably delegated medical-aesthetic procedures, which stay under the delegating physician's control via IC 25-22.5-1-2(a)(20) regardless of who owns the entity (see the `esthetician` entry).