Collaborative Practice Agreement · PharmD
West Virginia Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Notification for Pharmacists
Required. The Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Notification is the written instrument West Virginia law names for a Pharmacist working with a physician. Below: the board that governs it, what it must contain, and the terms it has to carry.
Represents WV's Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreement (CPA) tier (§§ 30-5-18/-19), not ordinary pharmacist licensure — base dispensing needs no agreement and is out of scope here. Unusually, WV's CPA is a three-way agreement among pharmacist, physician, AND the individual patient (informed consent), not just pharmacist-physician. Requires ≥$1M professional liability coverage and Board of Pharmacy + Board of Medicine/Osteopathy approval.
What a West Virginia Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Notification must contain
Governed by the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy. Each numbered item is a statutory requirement the agreement must satisfy.
The Pharmacist shall not begin collaborative pharmacy practice with the Physician until a complete collaborative pharmacy practice notification, identifying both Parties and their practice location(s), has been filed with and accepted by the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy, which forwards a copy to the Physician's licensing board. The practice notification is not subject to renewal and remains effective until the collaborative pharmacy practice agreement between the Parties terminates.
The Pharmacist shall meet the collaborative-practice eligibility requirements established by the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy before filing the notification described above.
- The Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Notification on file also carries 1 scope, 1 education, 1 registration, 1 authority clauses, generated in the document itself.
Statutes and rules cited
- W. Va. Code §§ 30-5-18, 30-5-19; W. Va. Code St. R. tit. 11, ser. 8 (Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, and Pharmacy Joint Rule for Collaborative Pharmacy Practice)board guidance
West Virginia Board of Pharmacy's own description of the collaborative pharmacy practice notification process, eligibility, and scope limits.
Terms it has to carry
Ratio, proximity, chart review, meeting and prescribing terms the agreement has to carry, from the state's supervision rules.
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
No affirmative statutory grant of controlled-substance prescribing authority for WV pharmacists under a CPA was located — coded as not allowed pending confirmation; verify against current Board of Pharmacy rules before relying on this for a controlled-substance scenario.
Written agreement
Required
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Non-licensee ownership permitted — No pharmacist-ownership requirement was independently confirmed against specific West Virginia statute in this research pass — treat as an open item distinct from the CPA-based scope-of-practice question above.
Legal sources for these rules (2)
About West Virginia's rules
code.wvlegislature.gov would not serve statute text during this research pass (anomalous redirect, not followed) — sourcing below leans on WV Board of Nursing/Medicine/Pharmacy materials and secondary sources; confidence is lower than for states with direct statute access. SB 956 (2026), which would let PAs own practices and end mandatory collaboration, had NOT confirmed final passage/signature as of this research pass — treat PA entries below as the current, not the pending, law.
Other clinicians in West Virginia: see the state overview.