PharmD · Oregon
Collaborative Drug Therapy Management for Pharmacists in Oregon
No. Pharmacists here manage drug therapy on their own authority. 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 and similar) and for hormonal contraceptives (ORS 689.689), grounded in statute and, for the formulary, a prior diagnosis by another prescriber, not a physician collaboration or CDTM agreement. Whether a separate agreement-based collaborative drug therapy management pathway also exists is not covered 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
Supervision ratio
Not codified — no cap on file
Chart review
Not codified
Meeting cadence
Not codified
Prescriptive authority
No agreement needed to prescribe · 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 and contraceptive authority covered here; no physician agreement is required for either. Whether a distinct agreement-based CDTM pathway also exists in Oregon, as in many other states, is not covered here.
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; the statute contemplates employees of a registered corporation, implying corporate ownership is permitted under the usual pharmacist-in-charge model. Confirm the specific pharmacist-in-charge provision
Materially more permissive than the physician/PA/NP/APRN entity-ownership rules above.
Sources for the supervision 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.