Practice Agreement · PharmD

Pharmacist Practice Agreement in Wisconsin

Wisconsin law does not require a Pharmacist to hold a named agreement with a physician. Practices still use one to define the working relationship; here is what it covers and what the state does require.

Practice authoritySupervision required
Written agreementAgreement required
What Wisconsin calls itNo named instrument
Governing boardWisconsin Pharmacy Examining Board
Agreement familyDelegation of Services
Research date2026-09-03 · clauses 2026-09-03

Represents Wisconsin's Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA) tier under §§ 448.03(2)/450.033, not ordinary pharmacist licensure — base dispensing and statutory limited authority (e.g. vaccines) need no CPA and are out of scope here. A 2023 law (Act 98) expanded pharmacist scope of practice, but did NOT add independent prescriptive authority — Wisconsin pharmacists cannot prescribe on their own even with a CPA; they perform physician-delegated patient-care services.

What a Pharmacist practice agreement covers in Wisconsin

Governed by the Wisconsin Pharmacy Examining Board. Each numbered item is a statutory requirement the agreement must satisfy.

  1. Wisconsin does not have a statutory 'collaborative practice agreement' or 'collaborative drug therapy management' framework specific to pharmacists. Instead, Wis. Stat. § 450.033 permits the Pharmacist to perform any patient care service that a physician affirmatively delegates to the Pharmacist's. The Pharmacist shall not perform a delegated service until the Physician's delegation of that specific service has been documented as required by Wis. Admin. Code ch. Phar 7.

  2. This Agreement's terms regarding the scope, procedures, and review of any delegated patient care service accordingly reflect the Parties' own arrangement and are not themselves mandated by Wisconsin law beyond the documentation and record-retention obligations described below.

  3. The agreement on file also carries 1 scope, 1 education, 1 registration, 1 authority clauses, generated in the document itself.

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

Act 98 (2023) expanded pharmacist scope but explicitly did NOT grant independent prescriptive authority — pharmacists perform patient-care services delegated by a physician under a CPA (§§ 448.03(2), 450.033), rather than prescribing in their own right, so they cannot independently prescribe controlled substances even under a CPA.

Written agreement

Required

Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)

Non-licensee ownership permitted — No pharmacist-ownership requirement was independently confirmed against specific Wisconsin 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 (3)
How the relationship works day to day
Who has to be where, how often you meet, and what the physician costs: Pharmacist in Wisconsin on collaborativeagreement.com.

About Wisconsin's rules

The APRN Modernization Act (2025 Act 17) took effect September 1, 2026 — days before this data's last-verified date — replacing permanent NP/CRNA/CNS collaborative arrangements with a 3,840-hour/24-month transition to independent practice; CNMs are auto-licensed with NO such threshold. Given how recent this is, verify current DSPS/Board of Nursing implementation guidance before relying on transition-period details below.

Other clinicians in Wisconsin: see the state overview.