Verify a Massachusetts Certified Nurse Aide license

liveMA Nurse Aide Registry · profession key cna

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How Massachusetts Certified Nurse Aide license verification works

A Certified Nurse Aide in Massachusetts is licensed by the MA Nurse Aide Registry. 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: status issued last_renewed expires license_type actions education associated_licenses city_state.

Board note: Nurse Aide Registry is a board on the same BHPL API (Nurse Aide Certification, Medication Aide Certification); hha not listed in MA

What a Certified Nurse Aide 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 Certified Nurse Aide 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.

Verify a Massachusetts Certified Nurse Aide license by API

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

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