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Verify a Pennsylvania Osteopathic Physician (DO) license

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How Pennsylvania Osteopathic Physician (DO) license verification works

A Osteopathic Physician (DO) in Pennsylvania is licensed by the PA 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: status issued expires last_renewed discipline+documents other_licenses specialty.

Board note: One PALS API covers all BPOA boards; no DOB published; captcha setting off 2026-11-03

What a Osteopathic Physician (DO) 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 Osteopathic Physician (DO) 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.

Interstate Medical Licensure Compact and multistate Osteopathic Physician (DO) licenses

Osteopathic Physician (DO) licenses can carry a multistate privilege under the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. When the Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania Osteopathic Physician (DO) license by API

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

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