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Kentucky: medical director and delegated services for an addiction medicine or MAT clinic
Whether Kentucky requires a physician medical director for an addiction medicine or MAT clinic, the qualifications, duties, and what the state says about the staff who deliver protocol-driven services.
Medical directorMedical director required
Research date2026-09-03
Qualifications
Physician licensed under KRS 311.571.
Duties the rule assigns
- Be responsible for the medical aspect of the program
- Oversee patient admission
- Approve patient treatment plans
- Participate in quality assurance review
- Provide medical services, personally or via a designated physician, in-house or on-call, on a 24-hour basis
Notes
Codified for a chemical dependency treatment program's inpatient facility (902 KAR 20:160). Outpatient/office-based MAT settings were not separately confirmed to carry the same facility-level medical-director designation — verify which licensure category a given program falls under.
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