Verify a District of Columbia Physician Assistant license
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How District of Columbia Physician Assistant license verification works
A Physician Assistant in District of Columbia is licensed by the DC 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 name license_type status issued expires temp_issued temp_expires city from_state actions.
Board note: DC Board of Medicine on the DC Health portal: MEDICINE AND SURGERY (MD), OSTEOPATHY AND SURGERY (DO), PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT, ACUPUNCTURIST. Public orders (PDF links under app.hpla.doh.dc.gov) come back in Public_Order_Details__c and are recorded as record.actions.
What a Physician Assistant 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 Assistant 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.
PA Licensure Compact and multistate Physician Assistant licenses
Physician Assistant licenses can carry a multistate privilege under the PA Licensure Compact. When the District of Columbia 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 District of Columbia Physician Assistant license by API
POST https://api.primarycheck.com/v1/verifications
{
"person": { "firstName": "…", "lastName": "…" },
"claims": [
{ "type": "license", "state": "DC", "profession": "pa", "number": "…" }
],
"purpose": "employment",
"consent": { "consentId": "cons_…" }
}Quickstart · License claim reference · Run one in the dashboard
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