# Florida MQA Health Care Practitioner License Scraper (`scrapers_lat/florida-mqa-health-scraper`) Actor
Search Florida DOH Medical Quality Assurance health-care licenses: MDs, DOs, nurses, dentists & more. Get license #, status, profession, practice address, specialty & email. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.
- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapers\_lat/florida-mqa-health-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Scrapers Lat](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet
## Pricing
from $12.75 / 1,000 results
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Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.
Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event
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# README
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## Florida MQA Health Care Practitioner License Scraper
> Extract Florida Department of Health (MQA) health-care practitioner licenses by name, profession, city, county, ZIP or license number — physicians, nurses, dentists, therapists and dozens more regulated professions, with practice address, specialty and contact details.
**📥 [Input](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/florida-mqa-health-scraper/input-schema) · 📤 [Output](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/florida-mqa-health-scraper/output-schema) · 💰 [Pricing](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/florida-mqa-health-scraper/pricing) · ▶️ [Examples](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/florida-mqa-health-scraper/examples)**
Practice address + email on physician profiles
Florida statewide every health board
JSON / CSV / Excel output formats
### What you get
Every record is a Florida health-care practitioner license, returned as flat columns ready for CSV or Excel:
- **Identity & license** — license number, full name, first and last name, profession, city and license status (Clear/Active, Null and Void, Retired, and more).
- **Address & dates** — full address of record, license expiration date and original issue date.
- **Compliance flags** — discipline on file, public complaint indicator and controlled-substance prescriber indicator.
- **Physician profile (MD/DO)** — primary practice name and address (street, city, state, ZIP), year began practicing, **contact email when the practitioner provided one**, specialty certification board and certification, number of specialty certifications, Medicaid participation, hospital staff privileges and other-state licenses.
You control depth: keep **Fetch Full Profile Details** on for the complete profile, or turn it off for a fast, listing-only pass.
### Who is it for
| Use case | Who benefits |
|---|---|
| Verify a physician or nurse license before hiring or credentialing | Hospitals, clinics and staffing agencies |
| Build targeted lists of practicing physicians by specialty and county | Medical sales, recruiters and lead-gen teams |
| Confirm a therapist, dentist or pharmacist license is current | Compliance and provider-network teams |
| Enrich provider directories with practice address and contact email | Health-tech and data teams |
| Monitor license status and expiration for renewals | Practice managers and credentialing staff |
### Frequently Asked Questions
**Which professions does this scraper cover?**
Every board and council in the Florida Division of Medical Quality Assurance license search — including medical doctors, osteopathic physicians, physician assistants, registered and practical nurses, advanced practice registered nurses, dentists and dental hygienists, pharmacists, physical and occupational therapists, chiropractors, optometrists, acupuncturists, massage therapists, clinical social workers, mental health counselors and many more. The profession is returned on every record.
**What contact and address data is included?**
For physicians (MD/DO), the practitioner profile adds the primary practice address and, when the practitioner supplied one, a contact email address, plus specialty certification, hospital staff privileges and other-state licenses. All practitioners include the address of record and license dates when Fetch Full Profile Details is on.
**How do I search?**
Enter one or more last names, and optionally narrow by first name, profession code, board, city, county, ZIP, license number, business name or license status. Each last name runs its own search, so one run can cover many people. You can also search by profession and county alone, with no name.
**Can I search by license number?**
Yes. Enter the exact license number, for example ME122256, to pull a single practitioner.
**What happens when a field is missing?**
Fields the source does not provide for a given practitioner are returned as null rather than guessed — for example email is null when the practitioner did not supply one, and specialty is null for professions that do not report board certifications.
**Do I pay for empty runs?**
No. You are only charged for real practitioner records returned. A search with no matches costs nothing.
**Are nurse and psychologist records complete?**
The Florida source redirects some nursing records to the national Nursys system and some psychology records to PSYPACT, so those subsets can be partial. All other health professions return the full profile.
### Export, API and AI agents (x402 + MCP)
Export the scraped data to **JSON, CSV or Excel**, pull it as a **dataset** through the Apify **API**, or wire it into your app with **no code**. This web scraper and data extractor also works for bulk data extraction and scheduled runs.
For AI agents: this Actor is available on **x402**, Apify's agentic payment standard built with Coinbase. An AI agent can discover, pay for and run it on its own with a funded wallet and a single HTTP request: no account, no subscription, no API key and no human in the loop. It also runs as an **MCP** tool inside Claude, Cursor and other AI clients out of the box. Learn more about [x402 agentic payments on Apify](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/x402).
### Related scrapers
Need data from the same space? Here are other scrapers we build and maintain:
- [Florida DBPR Professional License Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/florida-dbpr-scraper): Extract Florida DBPR professional license records by name, business or license number across dozens of regulated professions.
- [NPPES NPI Provider Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/nppes-npi-scraper): Scrape US healthcare provider records from the official NPPES NPI Registry by name, NPI, taxonomy and location.
- [Healthgrades Doctors Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/healthgrades-doctors-scraper): Extract US physician profiles from Healthgrades with specialty, location and ratings.
- [California CSLB Contractor License Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapers_lat/california-cslb-scraper): Extract licensed California contractor records from the CSLB public data portal.
### More scrapers at scrapers.lat
This actor is built and maintained by [scrapers.lat](https://scrapers.lat), where we publish scrapers for Latin American and US public platforms: real estate, jobs, e-commerce, company registries and government data. Browse the full catalog, see live sample output for each one, or ask us for a custom scraper at [scrapers.lat](https://scrapers.lat).
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> This actor is an independent tool and has no affiliation with the Florida Department of Health or its Division of Medical Quality Assurance. It only accesses data that is publicly available on the official MQA license verification portal. This data may include personal information such as names, addresses and contact details; use it responsibly and in accordance with applicable law and the source terms of service.
# Actor input Schema
## `lastNames` (type: `array`):
One or more practitioner last names to search. Each name runs a separate search combined with the filters below. Leave empty to search by profession, city, county, ZIP, license number or business name only.
## `firstName` (type: `string`):
Optional first name to narrow the search.
## `profession` (type: `string`):
Optional profession code, e.g. 1501 = Medical Doctor, 1701 = Registered Nurse. Leave empty for any profession.
## `board` (type: `string`):
Optional licensing board/council code, e.g. 15 = Board of Medicine, 7 = Board of Dentistry.
## `city` (type: `string`):
Optional practitioner city.
## `county` (type: `string`):
Optional Florida county code, e.g. 23 = Miami-Dade, 16 = Broward.
## `zipCode` (type: `string`):
Optional ZIP code.
## `licenseNumber` (type: `string`):
Optional exact license number, e.g. ME122256.
## `businessName` (type: `string`):
Optional business/facility name.
## `licenseStatus` (type: `string`):
Which license statuses to include.
## `withDetails` (type: `boolean`):
Fetch each practitioner's full profile (practice/record address, license dates, specialty, email, staff privileges). Turn off for a faster, listing-only run.
## `maxProviders` (type: `integer`):
Maximum number of practitioners to return across all searches.
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"lastNames": [
"Smith"
],
"licenseStatus": "ALL",
"withDetails": true,
"maxProviders": 50
}
```
# Actor output Schema
## `results` (type: `string`):
No description
# API
You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.
## JavaScript example
```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
token: '',
});
// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
"lastNames": [
"Smith"
],
"maxProviders": 50
};
// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapers_lat/florida-mqa-health-scraper").call(input);
// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
console.dir(item);
});
// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs
```
## Python example
```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient
# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
"lastNames": ["Smith"],
"maxProviders": 50,
}
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapers_lat/florida-mqa-health-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
print(item)
# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start
```
## CLI example
```bash
echo '{
"lastNames": [
"Smith"
],
"maxProviders": 50
}' |
apify call scrapers_lat/florida-mqa-health-scraper --silent --output-dataset
```
## MCP server setup
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapers_lat/florida-mqa-health-scraper"
}
}
}
```
The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer ` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).
## OpenAPI specification
Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/7LRdBwYJX8Nl5F6IG/builds/aLfEf0FthfLXD5ntU/openapi.json