Protocol · PharmD · Utah
Practice Protocol for Pharmacists in Utah
Required. Utah law names the instrument a Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreement, and the clinical protocol is the content that instrument carries. Below: the board that governs it, what it must contain, and the terms it has to carry.
Represents Utah's voluntary Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreement (CPPA) tier under § 58-17b, not ordinary pharmacist licensure — base dispensing and statutory protocol-based authority (e.g. naloxone, hormonal contraceptives) need no physician agreement and are out of scope here. Entering a CPPA is voluntary for both pharmacist and practitioner; no board-certification/residency requirement or numeric per-physician cap was found.
What a Utah Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreement must contain
Governed by the Utah Board of Pharmacy. Each numbered item is a statutory requirement the Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreement must satisfy.
Utah does not require the Pharmacist to enter into a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement as a condition of pharmacy licensure or practice. A Pharmacist and one or more practitioners may voluntarily enter into a written and signed collaborative pharmacy practice agreement under Utah Code § 58-17b-102, under which the Pharmacist may perform drug therapy management, initiate drug therapy, and provide disease-prevention services within the conditions and limitations the agreement states.
Source: Utah Code § 58-17b-102
This Agreement's terms regarding the Pharmacist accordingly serve to define the working relationship between the Parties and any collaborative pharmacy practice agreement they elect to establish, and are not themselves required by Utah law as a condition of the Pharmacist's authority to practice.
- The Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreement also carries 1 scope, 1 education, 1 registration and 1 authority clauses, authored in the document itself.
Statutes and rules these clauses cite
- Utah Code § 58-17b-102statute
Defines "collaborative pharmacy practice" and "collaborative pharmacy practice agreement" and includes collaborative pharmacy practice, drug therapy management, and therapy initiation within the practice of pharmacy.
Terms it has to carry
Ratio, proximity, chart review, meeting and prescribing terms the Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreement has to carry, from Utah'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 · controlled substances permitted
Statute does not specify a schedule-level ceiling for CPPA prescribing — treat as agreement-defined rather than assuming a specific limit.
Written agreement
Required
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Non-licensee ownership permitted — No pharmacist-ownership requirement — § 58-17b-302 requires every pharmacy to have a designated pharmacist-in-charge who shares professional responsibility with the owner 'regardless of the form of the business organization,' implying corporate/non-pharmacist ownership is permitted.
Materially more permissive than the medical/APRN PC/PLLC regime above.
Sources for the supervision rules (2)
About Utah's rules
S.B. 36 (2023) eliminated the physician-collaboration/contract requirement for ALL APRN roles (NP, CRNA, CNM, CNS), not just NPs — Utah is a full-independence state across the APRN scope. PAs remain on a separate, hours-tiered collaboration model (Utah Code § 58-70a-307) with no numeric ratio cap or chart-review percentage codified.
Other clinicians in Utah: see the state overview.