TX Medical Board Licenses - Physicians, PAs & the Allied Register

The Texas Medical Board publishes its entire licensure file - every license the board has ever issued, refreshed daily - as open data. This actor turns that file into a charged-per-record physician and practitioner lookup.

Built for: hospital and clinic credentialing (verify a physician's live license and any board action before granting privileges), healthcare staffing and locum agencies, malpractice and payer credentialing teams, medical-device and pharma sales territory work, and workforce analysis of Texas medicine.

What it covers

511,438 licenses, refreshed ~daily. This is the whole board, not only doctors - the file spans the board's full credential vocabulary:

License lane	Records
Physician License	185,801
Physician-in-Training Permit (residents)	103,587
Physician Full Temporary License	44,021
Medical Radiologic Technologist (General)	42,075
Institutional Permit	29,288
Respiratory Care Practitioner	24,063
Physician Assistant License	20,744
Radiologic Technologist / Acupuncturist / Medical Physicist / Surgical Assistant / ...	the long tail

The physician lane is the headline: 185,801 licenses, one row per license number, no duplicates. Of those, 168,306 are MDs and 17,476 are DOs.

Each record carries the practitioner's identity and the license's own terms:

• license number (e.g. C2582, W8893) and the license type
• degree (MD / DO / PA / PIT / MRT / RCP / ...) and year of birth
• registration status and its date - the board's own vocabulary
• disciplinary status and the live board action: 7,850 physician rows carry a current board-action date and the order's text (current_board_action_description)
• practice address, city, state and ZIP - 90.8% of physician rows carry a street address, 85% a city

The physician line-up is Texas-weighted but not Texas-only: Houston (15,610 active), Dallas (9,304), San Antonio (6,700), Austin (5,143), Fort Worth (3,110) - and out-of-state physicians who hold Texas licenses.

The board's own live flag

currently_licensed is the board's Y/N stamp - 201,396 records are live right now, 112,800 of them physicians. active mode hands you that slice; activeOnly filters any other query the same way.

The trap is the other status column. registration_status looks like the status field until you read its values: the board spells the same non-renewal state four different ways (CANC NON-RENEWAL, CANCELLED FOR NONRENEWAL, CANCELLED NON-RENEWAL, CANCELLED,DID NOT RENEW), and the file mixes the whole board's permits into one registration_status vocabulary. Filtering it with a substring silently returns the wrong set. This actor matches the exact vocabulary and uses the board's currently_licensed flag for the live slice, which agrees with registration_status='ACTIVE' to the row on the physician lane (107,690 = 107,690).

Typical questions

• "Is license C2582 live, and is there any board action against it?"
• "Every actively licensed physician in Houston."
• "All physicians with a current board action - the disciplinary pipeline."
• "Physician Assistants licensed in Texas."
• "Who is licensed under degree DO in Austin?"
• "Renewal pipeline: every physician license expiring in 2026."
• "Aggregate the register by license type, degree, status, or practice state."

Inputs

Input	What it does
mode	active (live slice, default) / rows (any license) / aggregate
licenseType	a lane: physician / physician assistant / resident / radiologic technologist / ...
degree	exact code: MD / DO / PA / PIT / MRT / RCP / ...
status	the board's registration status, exact
discipline	NONE / SEE PREVIOUS ORDER / UNDER BOARD ORDER / SUSPENDED BY BOARD / ...
boardActionOnly	only licenses with a live board-action record
licenseNumber	exact license number - a full profile lookup
name / city / state	holder filters (name & city fuzzy, state exact)
issuedFrom/To, expiresFrom/To	issue and expiration windows
groupBy	aggregate over licenseType / degree / status / discipline / state / expirationYear
maxResults	cap records (default 200)

Default run = 200 live licenses, most recently issued first (mode defaults to active) - fast for the daily auto-test. For a targeted query add a filter; for a broad view use aggregate (a handful of summary rows, not a 511k-row dump).

Low cost

From $0.0001 per record - billed only for the rows you use, at the low end of the store. A credentialing check on one physician, or a whole disciplinary sweep, costs pennies.

The board's file reads like a straightforward export until you try to filter it. The status field is not one field but two - a registration_status whose vocabulary mixes the board's entire permit system and spells a single non-renewal outcome four ways, sitting beside the currently_licensed flag that actually answers "is this person practising". The discipline story is split across three columns - a disciplinary_status flag, a separate license_status carrying licensure actions under board order, and the board-action text itself, which is populated on only 4% of physician rows and is the only place an order's substance lives. The file is the whole board, not the physician register - a naive "doctors" read drags in residents, radiologic technologists and respiratory therapists, and a Physician% prefix quietly merges Physician Licenses with Physician-in-Training permits and temporary lanes. Normalizing all of that into a register where a licenseType / degree / discipline query returns exactly the physicians you mean is the actual product. Every pull is integrity-checked against the file's known shape, so a degraded source fails loudly instead of returning bad rows.

Source

• Texas Open Data: Texas Medical Board licenses - the TMB's published licensure file. Reflects the board's record as of each refresh; not a verification of any practitioner's current standing. specialties is sparsely published and on no physician rows, so it is carried but never a headline.