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 ...

North Carolina becomes the 19th state to join the interstate PA licensure compact in a new health care workforce reform bill signed by Governor Josh Stein on July 1. North Carolina Governor Josh Stein ...

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

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 ...

Sep. 5—Hoping to ease the nursing shortage, Pennsylvania began allowing nurses who hold a multistate license to begin practicing in the state as of Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Department of State ...

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 ...

Seven states have adopted legislation to enact the PA Licensure Compact, meaning the model is now activated, the American Academy of Physician Associates said April 5. Virginia became the seventh ...

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 ...

CHICAGO, IL, UNITED STATES, February 25, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The American Association of Dental Boards (AADB) has introduced legislation to join the ...

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 ...

Mercedes Dodge was raised by first-generation immigrant parents from Peru in a modest home in a rural part of southeastern Texas, where there weren't many health care providers. Sometimes they had to ...