🧠 Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Clinic · Kentucky
Kentucky: medical director and delegated services for a psychiatry or behavioral health clinic
Whether Kentucky requires a physician medical director for a psychiatry or behavioral health 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
Board certified or board eligible psychiatrist licensed in Kentucky.
Duties the rule assigns
- Be responsible for treatment planning
- Supervise and coordinate the provision of psychiatric services by the center
- For primary care services, coordinate care decisions with the center's psychiatrist if the medical director is not board-certified in psychiatry
- Provide consultant services to staff on a regularly scheduled basis
Notes
Codified specifically for licensed community mental health centers (902 KAR 20:091) — must be employed full-time. Not confirmed whether a smaller private-practice psychiatric/behavioral-health clinic outside the CMHC licensure category is subject to the same requirement.
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