💊 Addiction Medicine / MAT Clinic · North Dakota
North Dakota: medical director and delegated services for an addiction medicine or MAT clinic
Whether North Dakota 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.
Qualifications
Licensed physician employed by the program sponsor (the sponsor itself need not be a physician).
Duties the rule assigns
- Assumes responsibility for administering all medical services performed by the opioid treatment program, directly or by delegation to authorized program physicians/health care professionals under the medical director's direct supervision
- Monitors and supervises all medical services provided by the program
- Refers patients for medical or psychiatric treatment when appropriate
Notes
Specific to licensed opioid treatment programs (methadone/buprenorphine dispensing) under N.D. Admin. Code art. 75-09.1-10, mirroring the federal OTP medical-director requirement (42 CFR § 8.12(f)(1)) rather than a broader addiction-medicine/MAT-clinic rule — an office-based buprenorphine practice not licensed as an OTP is not independently shown to need one.
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