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Verify a Maryland Physician Assistant license

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How Maryland Physician Assistant license verification works

A Physician Assistant in Maryland is licensed by the MD 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: name license_number license_type status issued expires pathway practice_setting public_address education graduation_year medicaid malpractice_insurance maryland_orders disciplinary_md disciplinary_other_states pending_charges other_public_actions malpractice convictions data_as_of.

Board note: Board of Physicians profile search (ASP.NET WebForms, no captcha); number = letter + 7 digits (physician D/H/X/T, PA C, respiratory L); DO licence-type wording not yet observed (matched on 'Osteopath'); name search is last-name prefix

What a Physician Assistant license check returns

Field checkPasses when
license_numberEqual to the board's number, ignoring prefix and leading zeros
nameLast name or declared alias matches; first name exact or nickname
license_typeThe record is a Physician Assistant license, strictly (no near-miss types)
statusThe board shows an active status; probation is active with a flag
expiresExpiration is on or after today, where the board publishes it
disciplinary_actionsRecorded 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.

PA Licensure Compact and multistate Physician Assistant licenses

Physician Assistant licenses can carry a multistate privilege under the PA Licensure Compact. When the Maryland 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 Maryland Physician Assistant license by API

POST https://api.primarycheck.com/v1/verifications
{
  "person": { "firstName": "…", "lastName": "…" },
  "claims": [
    { "type": "license", "state": "MD", "profession": "pa", "number": "…" }
  ],
  "purpose": "employment",
  "consent": { "consentId": "cons_…" }
}

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