These instructions apply only to Physician’s Assistants.

• If you are an Advanced Practice Nurse, click Controlled Substances Registration - Advanced Practice Nurses.
• If you are a healthcare practitioner other than a Physician’s Assistant or Advanced Practice Nurse, click Controlled Substances Registration - Practitioners.

General Information

• You must hold a Delaware Physician Assistant (PA) license with prescriptive authority before your application for controlled substance registration (CSR) will be processed.
• If you do not already hold a PA license, use the Application to Practice as a Physician Assistant to apply.
• If you already hold a Delaware PA license but you do not yet have prescriptive authority, use the Physician Assistant Application for Prescriptive Authority.

• If you don’t already have prescriptive authority when you file this CSR application, you should receive your CSR 3-4 weeks after your prescriptive authority is approved. Please allow the 3-4 weeks to elapse before calling the office.

• Your Delaware CSR certificate and all CSR-related correspondence must be mailed to the same address as your PA license.

• You need only one Delaware CSR to prescribe controlled substances in Delaware even if you prescribe controlled substances at more than one Delaware business/practice or more than one location of a business/practice. However, every Delaware location where controlled substances are dispensed/stored must be covered by a CSR.  If no other practitioner (e.g., physician), physician assistant or APN holds a Delaware CSR for a location where you will store/dispense, as well as prescribe, controlled substances, you must file for an additional CSR for the location.

• You must file a Physician Assistant Application for Prescriptive Authority form to report any new/additional supervising physicians. See Reporting Supervisory Changes below.

• When your Delaware CSR is approved, you must then file for a federal DEA registration for Delaware.  You must have both a Delaware CSR and DEA registration for Delaware before you prescribe controlled substances in Delaware.  A DEA registration in another jurisdiction is not sufficient for prescribing controlled substances in Delaware.

Requirements for All Applicants

• Submit completed, signed and notarized application Application for Controlled Substances Registration – Physician’s Assistants.

• Enclose processing fee by check or money order made payable to “State of Delaware.”
  • The amount of the fee depends on how many controlled substance registrations you are applying for. Multiply the number of registrations applied for by the fee on the Fee Schedule.

• Arrange for your main supervising Physician and for all alternate supervising Physicians to complete and sign the boxes in the SUPERVISION section.

• If you have never been issued a U.S. Social Security Number (SSN), submit a Request for Exemption from Social Security Number Requirement.