You are eligible to verify your medical status if you have one of the job titles below and submit the required documents. This article explains which medical providers are eligible to verify.
Learn how to verify if you don’t have a National Provider Identifier (NPI).
Note: Only doctors licensed to practice in Canada are eligible for a Canadian Medical credential. If you live in Canada and fall under one of the subgroups below, you are not eligible to verify your medical status.
Certified medical assistants
- Home health aides
- Hospice aides
- Medical assistants
- Medical assistants in oncology
- Personal care aide
Chiropractors
Any chiropractor is eligible to verify.
Clinical counselor, psychologist, or therapist
- Child life specialists
- Licensed professional counselor
- Psychologist
- Speech language pathologist
- Speech therapist
Clinical technicians
- Behavioral and/or mental health technicians
- Cardiovascular
- Certified paraoptometric technician (CPT)
- Dialysis
- Dietetic technician
- EKG
- Emergency medical
- Health information
- Lab
- MRI
- Nuclear medicine technologists
- Perfusion
- Pharmacy technician
- Phlebotomist
- Radiology, radiation
- Sterile processing
- Surgical
Dentists and dental assistants
- Doctor of dental surgery (DDS)
- Doctor of medicine in dentistry
- Dental hygienist
Diagnostic medical personnel
- Audiologist
- Cytogenetic technologists
- Diagnostic medical sonographer
- Diagnostic molecular scientists
- Histo-technologists
- Medical laboratory scientists
- Pathologists' assistants
- Radiographer (medical imaging technologist)
- Radiologic technologist
Doctors
- Doctor of osteopathic medicine (DO)
- Doctor of podiatric medicine (DPM)
- Medical doctor (MD)
- Doctor of optometry; ophthalmologist (OD)
- Toxicology
- Veterinarian
- Resident
- Fellow
Licensed clinical social workers
Any licensed clinical social worker (LCW) is eligible to verify.
Nurses
For steps to verify your nurse status, visit Verifying as a nurse.
Pharmacists
Any pharmacist is eligible to verify.
Physician assistants
- Cytogenetic technologists
- Diagnostic medical sonographer
- Diagnostic molecular scientists
- Histo-technologists
- Medical laboratory scientists
- Pathologists' assistants
- Radiographer (medical imaging technologist)
- Radiologic technologist
Physical or occupational therapists
- Physical therapist doctor of physical therapy (DPT)
- Occupational therapy assistant
- Physical therapy assistant
Registered dietitians
Any registered dietician is eligible to verify.
Respiratory therapists
Any respiratory therapist is eligible to verify.