Verify a Iowa Physician (MD) license
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How Iowa Physician (MD) license verification works
A Physician (MD) in Iowa is licensed by the IA Medical Board. PrimaryCheck looks the license up live at the board's public verification system (board lookup) by license number, or by name when no number is supplied. The record the board publishes is captured as evidence, hashed, and rendered into a proof PDF.
Fields returned for this board: license_number license_type status expires issued renewal_date degree specialties basis_for_application relinquished_status public_documents actions.
Board note: Board of Medicine AMANDA portal JSON API (ibmrest; AES-ECB responses). md/do/acupuncturist by number (MD-n, DO-0n) or name; search capped at 100 rows. Physician assistants are on the DIAL Professional Licensure portal (connector ia_ibpl).
What a Physician (MD) license check returns
| Field check | Passes when |
|---|---|
license_number | Equal to the board's number, ignoring prefix and leading zeros |
name | Last name or declared alias matches; first name exact or nickname |
license_type | The record is a Physician (MD) license, strictly (no near-miss types) |
status | The board shows an active status; probation is active with a flag |
expires | Expiration is on or after today, where the board publishes it |
disciplinary_actions | Recorded and flagged with any order documents; never silently dropped |
Verdicts: verified, discrepancy, not_found, unable_to_verify (with a reason), pending. See how verdicts are decided.
Interstate Medical Licensure Compact and multistate Physician (MD) licenses
Physician (MD) licenses can carry a multistate privilege under the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. When the Iowa record shows a multistate license, the result includes multistate: true and the privilege states. Privilege status is confirmed at the compact's own lookup, never inferred.
Verify a Iowa Physician (MD) license by API
POST https://api.primarycheck.com/v1/verifications
{
"person": { "firstName": "…", "lastName": "…" },
"claims": [
{ "type": "license", "state": "IA", "profession": "md", "number": "…" }
],
"purpose": "employment",
"consent": { "consentId": "cons_…" }
}Quickstart · License claim reference · Run one in the dashboard
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