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No. Texas law does not require on-site presence or geographic proximity between the NP and the collaborating physician. Many Texas collaboration arrangements operate fully remotely, as long as all documentation and communication requirements outlined in the PAA are met.

Texas law requires at least monthly meetings between the physician and the APRN to discuss patient care. These meetings do not need to be in person — they can be conducted by phone or video, provided each meeting is documented.

Texas generally allows a physician to collaborate with up to 7 APRNs or PAs (full-time equivalent). This gives Texas physicians room to work with multiple clinics and build meaningful additional income. Exceptions exist for facility-based hospital practices and medically underserved population practices.

Yes. We coordinate and structure Prescriptive Authority Agreements to meet Texas Medical Board and Texas Board of Nursing requirements. You review and sign — we handle the details so the process is clear and compliant from the start.

Many physicians in our Texas network are matched and onboarded within 24 to 48 hours, depending on availability, credentials, and clinic needs in your area.

For NPs: the most reliable way to find a collaborating physician in Texas is through a managed matching network like CollaboratingPhysician.com, rather than searching independently. Texas’s Prescriptive Authority Agreement requirements — dual TMB and BON filings, specialty alignment, the 7-NP cap, monthly documentation — make the process more complex than most NPs anticipate. A managed network handles vetting, agreement structuring, and TMB registration on your behalf, and matches you with a collaborative physician whose specialty corresponds to your practice area. Searching individually through LinkedIn, NP Facebook groups, or cold outreach to local physicians can work, but it places the full compliance burden on you and the physician, and many arrangements structured this way lack the documentation required to survive a Board audit. For physicians: if you are looking to access physician collaboration opportunities in Texas, applying through CollaboratingPhysician.com is the fastest path to a compliant, compensated arrangement. We actively source physician collaboration opportunities on your behalf, match you with NPs and PAs within your specialty and cap, and manage all TMB filings and ongoing documentation requirements throughout the relationship.

In Texas, physician collaboration — formally called a Prescriptive Authority Agreement (PAA) — is the legal arrangement that allows a Nurse Practitioner to prescribe medications under the oversight of a licensed Texas physician. A collaborative physician in this context is not a co-treating provider or a clinical supervisor in the traditional sense. The collaborative physician’s role under Texas Occupations Code § 157.0512 involves four primary responsibilities: (1) reviewing patient charts — at least 10% of controlled substance charts and 10% of non-controlled charts on a monthly or every-other-month cycle; (2) meeting monthly with the NP to discuss patient care, either in person or by phone or video; (3) being available for consultation whenever the NP is seeing patients; and (4) signing the PAA and maintaining TMB registration of the delegation. Beyond those defined obligations, the day-to-day footprint of physician collaboration in Texas is intentionally light — the framework was designed to give NPs meaningful clinical autonomy while preserving a physician oversight layer that satisfies the Texas legislature’s public safety requirements. This is why physician collaboration arrangements in Texas are structured as part-time, remote-compatible positions that fit around a physician’s primary practice rather than replacing it.