Look Up a Florida Medical License

This page helps you handle a Florida medical license search, verification, or follow-up question. It points you to the main state tools for checking license status, reviewing public information, and finding the right office for licensing or renewal issues.

For most public lookups, start with the Florida Department of Health Division of Medical Quality Assurance and the Florida Board of Medicine. Those state resources cover license verification, practitioner profiles, discipline and administrative actions, application status, renewals, and complaint routing.

License verification in the FL DOH MQA Search Portal

The main statewide search tool is the FL DOH MQA Search Portal. It is set up for License Verification, Practitioner Profile, and Discipline & Admin Actions searches for practitioners and establishments.

Open the Florida license search portal and choose the option that matches your task. For an individual medical license, use the practitioner path rather than the establishment path.

• Open the portal and select License Verification when you need current license status.
• Choose the practitioner option for an individual medical license search.
• Use Practitioner Profile when you need public-facing professional details.
• Use Discipline & Admin Actions when you need public disciplinary or administrative records.

Tip: The portal separates practitioner searches from establishment searches, so choosing the right path at the start makes the results easier to read.

Board of Medicine licensing and renewals

If you need more than a public lookup, the Florida Board of Medicine handles licensing and renewal information for Medical Doctor (MD), Physician Assistant (PA), and Anesthesiologist Assistant (AA) licenses, along with several physician pathways and facility registrations.

You can review Florida licensing options for new applications and check renewal requirements for current licensees. The Board states that its licensees renew biennially, that an initial application must be reviewed within 30 days, and that documents submitted after the initial review are updated within 14 business days of receipt.

These pages also route users to background screening, forms, FAQs, resources, and the electronic licensing system.

MQA Online Services and FAQs

For account-level work, the MQA Online Services portal supports new applicant accounts, returning applicant or licensee logins, business establishment and school access, prescription pad vendor access, and out-of-state telehealth routing.

Use MQA Online Services when you need to manage an application or license account, and search the Board of Medicine FAQs when you need board-specific answers. The returning applicant or licensee login asks for the licensee's last name, SSN, and date of birth. The portal also recommends using a desktop or laptop computer because not all mobile devices are fully compatible.

Discipline and complaint records

When you need public disciplinary information tied to a Florida medical license, use the Discipline & Admin Actions option in the MQA search system. That is the public-facing path for reviewing disciplinary and administrative records for practitioners and establishments.

If you need to report a concern, the Florida Department of Health explains the process on its complaints and enforcement page. Complaints against licensed practitioners or facilities cannot be filed over the phone, and Florida requires the complaint to be signed. If probable cause is found, the case becomes public 10 days after an administrative complaint is filed. If probable cause is not found, the case remains confidential.

Important: Florida lists fee disputes, billing disputes, personality conflicts, and bedside manner complaints among the issues it does not investigate.

IMLC and out-of-state telehealth

Florida also provides separate paths for multi-state licensure and out-of-state telehealth practice. These options are useful when your medical license question is not limited to a standard Florida verification or renewal search.

On the Board's licensing information page, Florida explains that the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact offers an expedited path for eligible physicians seeking licenses in multiple member jurisdictions. The same page also states that the out-of-state telehealth provider registration is for health care practitioners licensed outside Florida only, while Florida licensees may already provide telehealth services to patients in Florida that they can treat in person.

Florida medical licensing contacts

Use these contacts when you need help with licensing, renewals, or Board of Medicine administration.

• Customer Contact Center
  Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET
  Phone: (850) 488-0595
• Board Office Department of Health Board of Medicine, 4052 Bald Cypress Way Bin C-03, Tallahassee, FL 32399-3253
  Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET
  Phone: (850) 245-4131
• Applications and Fees ONLY Department of Health Board of Medicine, P.O. Box 6330, Tallahassee, FL 32314-6330