Arkansas combines two things worth knowing separately.
The prescribing limitation
Arkansas is one of six states — with Alabama, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa and West Virginia — that do not grant physician assistants Schedule II prescriptive authority. A full Arkansas license still leaves that gap, and your DEA registration does not close it.
The fee question
Arkansas’s physician assistant rule directs applicants to “pay the required fee for licensure as delineated elsewhere in this rule” without stating an amount in the section itself. That is the delegated pattern: the legislature or the rule authorizes a fee, and the board sets the number in a schedule it can revise without rulemaking.
It is legitimate and it is awkward for anyone trying to budget from primary sources. We confirm the current amount with the board rather than publishing a figure we cannot cite.
The combination
Arkansas is a compact member, so an Arkansas license should qualify you for privileges elsewhere from 2027. That makes it a state where the license may be worth more outside Arkansas than the scope it grants inside it — an unusual position, and a reason to think about why you are licensing here.
Before accepting a role
Confirm the prescribing scope against the work. This is the single question that most often goes unasked in the six restricted states, and the one most likely to surface after a start date rather than before.
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