Credit: Getty Images. Carlos Gutiérrez, EdD, MMS, PA-C interviews PAs on the impact of the PA Compact Licensure and what it means for expanding health care. The recent enactment of the PA Compact ...

Interstate licensure compacts have rapidly transformed the regulatory landscape governing multistate health care practice. Long viewed as aspirational solutions to workforce shortages and telehealth ...

Once operationalized, eligible PAs can complete a single application to receive a compact privilege (which is equivalent to a license) from each compact state in which they intend to practice. May was ...

For decades, physicians and nurses who ventured across state lines to practice, particularly in locum tenens roles, have reaped the benefits of medical licensure compacts. Yet, the same courtesy has ...

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro recently announced that, effective July 7, 2025, Pennsylvania will commence full participation in three interstate health care licensure compacts: the Interstate ...

Physician assistants might be granted interstate practice by spring 2026. As of Sept. 9, 13 states have joined the Physician Assistant Licensure Compact, which will allow licensed PAs in compact ...

On March 17, Alabama joined 23 other states that are part of the PA licensure compact, which removes the requirement for PAs to obtain licensure in each state they practice. The compact, organized by ...

YORK, Pa. — Pennsylvania will be able to recruit more out-of-state doctors and nurses with ease, thanks to a new multi-state licensure agreement. On Monday, the Shapiro administration announced that ...

HARRISBURG, PA — Governor Josh Shapiro announced this week that Pennsylvania is now a full participant in three major multistate licensure compacts, a move designed to address critical health care ...

As of Monday, the wait time for out-of-state healthcare workers to receive a license to work in Pennsylvania has been dramatically reduced as a result of a new state regulation rolled out by Gov. Josh ...

YORK, Pa. — Pennsylvania will be able to recruit more out-of-state doctors and nurses with ease, thanks to a new multi-state licensure agreement. On Monday, the Shapiro administration announced that ...

Pennsylvania will fully implement the NLC on July 7, 2025, allowing registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical/vocational nurses (LPN/VNs) who are Pennsylvania residents to have one multistate ...