Verify a Iowa Paramedic license

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How Iowa Paramedic license verification works

A Paramedic in Iowa is licensed by the IA EMS Office. 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 issued expires applicant city county_code discipline previous_status_code.

Board note: Iowa HHS Bureau of Emergency Medical and Trauma Services EMS clinician certification in the AMANDA 'Iowa Regulatory Licensing (DIAL & HHS Public Health)' portal (same host and executeCustomTransaction envelope as IA-PMSB). Program 'EMS Clinician' (EMSI): getPortalPublicSearchQuery_ADPER (program=EMSI; licenseNumber exact, names contains; the public search answers at most 10 rows per query), getPublicLicenseDetails_ADPER, getPublicApplicantFacilityDetails_ADPER; AES-128-ECB responseObject decrypted as the ia_* connectors do. Found 2026-11-04 by reading the portal's own calls in a headless browser (the option lists getProgram_ADPER / getProgramDetailsType_ADPER named the program). Levels: 300002 EMT / 300008 EMT-B → emt; 300003 AEMT → aemt; 300004 Paramedic / 300011 EMT-P / 300000 Paramedic Specialist → paramedic. Numbers EMT4005555 / PARA4001884 (legacy EMT-18-1009-02, PM-18-1603-17). Statuses 75 Active, 40 Expired, 500010 Lapsed, 500005 Current/Inactive. No date of birth; name-only searches capped at 10 rows → ambiguous when truncated.

What a Paramedic 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 Paramedic 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.

EMS Compact (REPLICA) and multistate Paramedic licenses

Paramedic licenses can carry a multistate privilege under the EMS Compact (REPLICA). 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.