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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On July 1, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein signed a bill into law to enter the Physician Assistant Licensure Compact, which allows PAs to practice outside the state where they were licensed. North ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...