I would like to one day become a Nurse Practitioner and start my own independent practice. I know here in Oklahoma that a Nurse Practitioner can work completly independent of a medical doctor exepct when it comes to writing scripts. In order to write scripts here in Oklahoma one needs to have a collaboration agreement with an MD or DO, saying the NP can call or email them if needed. I was wanting to know why would a docto want to sign this agreement? I could see if the NP was working with or for the doctor, but as an independent wanting to branch out on his own how woudl one get a doctor to agree to this? Do you pay the doctor a fee?