The short answer for Kansas. Physician or an authorised licensee.
A good faith exam is a clinical evaluation by a licensed provider, before treatment, establishing that the treatment is appropriate for that patient. What differs between states is who is allowed to perform it, whether it may happen remotely, and what has to be documented. This page sets out what we have verified for Kansas against primary sources, and says so plainly where a question is unsettled.
Who may perform the good faith exam in Kansas
Physician or an authorised licensee.
Medical director. An MD or DO whose licence is used BY THE PHYSICIAN and not by the business — real involvement in protocols, delegation and oversight.
Delegation and supervision. KSA 65-28,127 governs licensees who direct, supervise, order, refer, accept responsibility for, enter practice protocols with, or delegate acts constituting the practice of the healing arts.
The gate that catches operators in Kansas
The entity form. Kansas professional corporations are designated “PA” (Professional Association), not “PC” — a small thing that shows whether your adviser has done this here before.
Kansas hands the physician a subsection number. Every other state leaves them to infer the exposure from a doctrine.
What makes the exam defensible
Nobody is ever asked to produce a good faith exam on a good day. The request arrives after a complication, a board complaint, an insurance audit or a buyer’s diligence. Five things decide whether what you hand over helps you:
- A qualified practitioner, permitted in that state, actually performed it.
- A real evaluation happened — history, indications, contraindications, and a decision.
- The treatment plan and the order are specific: drug or device, site, dose or settings.
- Informed consent was taken and recorded before treatment, not after.
- The record still exists, unaltered and retrievable, two years later when somebody asks.
Only the first of those is state-specific. The other four fail in exactly the same way in Kansas as everywhere else, and they are where most exam processes actually break — not on the licence question, but on documentation nobody kept.
How Kansas sits on structure
Corporate practice of medicine. Yes. A general business entity may not engage in a learned profession by employing or contracting with physicians unless it is a professional corporation or LLC wholly owned by licensed professionals.
The exam and the structure are separate questions and they fail separately. A perfectly documented exam performed inside an entity that may not lawfully deliver the service is still a problem, and a clean entity does not save a rubber-stamped exam. See medical direction in Kansas for the structure side.
What MDside provides in Kansas
- Kansas-licensed physicians performing the exam themselves — not a queue of signatures.
- A written evaluation, treatment plan and order per patient, in a record you keep and can export.
- Protocols and delegation written to Kansas, matched to the services actually on your menu.
- A named Kansas medical director doing the work, where your structure needs one.
- 503A and 503B pharmacy relationships and in-house lab draws where the treatment calls for them.
Book a call and we will read your current exam process against the five tests above, in Kansas and any other state you operate in. The review is free and you are not obliged to use us for the fix.
Read the detail on Kansas
Frequently asked questions
Who can perform a good faith exam in Kansas?
Physician or an authorised licensee.
Can the exam be done by telehealth in Kansas?
That depends on the state rule above and on the treatment. Where we have verified a restriction it is stated on this page; where the position is unsettled we say so rather than guess, and we confirm it with the board before you build a remote funnel.
Does Kansas require a physician medical director?
An MD or DO whose licence is used BY THE PHYSICIAN and not by the business — real involvement in protocols, delegation and oversight.
What happens if the exam is not documented?
The exam effectively did not happen. In a complaint, an audit or a sale, an undocumented evaluation is treated as no evaluation — which is why the record, not the call, is the thing you are actually buying.
Primary sources for Kansas: KSA 65-28,127; the licence-use subsection (b)(15); Kansas Board of Healing Arts guidance on corporations. Last reviewed 2026-09-03. Corrections are welcome and get made: contact us.
General information about good faith exams and practice structure in Kansas, not legal advice. Requirements differ by state and change often. Confirm your obligations with healthcare counsel licensed in Kansas.