Protocol · PharmD · West Virginia
Practice Protocol for Pharmacists in West Virginia
Required. West Virginia law names the instrument a Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Notification, 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 WV's Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreement (CPA) tier (§§ 30-5-18/-19), not ordinary pharmacist licensure — base dispensing needs no agreement and is out of scope here. Unusually, WV's CPA is a three-way agreement among pharmacist, physician, AND the individual patient (informed consent), not just pharmacist-physician. Requires ≥$1M professional liability coverage and Board of Pharmacy + Board of Medicine/Osteopathy approval.
What a West Virginia Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Notification must contain
Governed by the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy. Each numbered item is a statutory requirement the Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Notification must satisfy.
The Pharmacist shall not begin collaborative pharmacy practice with the Physician until a complete collaborative pharmacy practice notification, identifying both Parties and their practice location(s), has been filed with and accepted by the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy, which forwards a copy to the Physician's licensing board. The practice notification is not subject to renewal and remains effective until the collaborative pharmacy practice agreement between the Parties terminates.
The Pharmacist shall meet the collaborative-practice eligibility requirements established by the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy before filing the notification described above.
- The Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Notification also carries 1 scope, 1 education, 1 registration and 1 authority clauses, authored in the document itself.
Statutes and rules these clauses cite
- W. Va. Code §§ 30-5-18, 30-5-19; W. Va. Code St. R. tit. 11, ser. 8 (Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, and Pharmacy Joint Rule for Collaborative Pharmacy Practice)board guidance
West Virginia Board of Pharmacy's own description of the collaborative pharmacy practice notification process, eligibility, and scope limits.
Terms it has to carry
Ratio, proximity, chart review, meeting and prescribing terms the Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Notification has to carry, from West Virginia'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 · no controlled-substance authority
No affirmative statutory grant of controlled-substance prescribing authority for WV pharmacists under a CPA was located — coded as not allowed pending confirmation; verify against current Board of Pharmacy rules before relying on this for a controlled-substance scenario.
Written agreement
Required
Practice ownership (corporate practice of medicine)
Non-licensee ownership permitted — No pharmacist-ownership requirement identified in West Virginia statute; distinct from the CPA-based scope-of-practice question above
Sources for the supervision rules (2)
About West Virginia's rules
Sourcing for West Virginia leans on Board of Nursing, Board of Medicine and Board of Pharmacy materials and secondary summaries rather than direct statute text, so confidence is lower than for most states. SB 956 (2026), which would let PAs own practices and end mandatory collaboration, had not been confirmed as finally passed and signed when this was written; the PA entries below reflect current, not pending, law.
Other clinicians in West Virginia: see the state overview.