Florida Medical License Scraper — DOH MQA Verification

Every licensed health care practitioner in Florida, from the state's own primary source. Paste a list of license numbers and get them verified one by one, or pull a whole board, profession or county in bulk. One row per licensee: license number, name, profession, board, license status, address of record, original issue date, expiration date, days-until-expiry, controlled-substance prescriber flag, cannabis-order authority, and the full disciplinary and public-complaint history with case numbers and document IDs — plus e-mail, specialty board certifications, hospital staff privileges, Medicaid participation and other-state licenses on physicians. $0.003 per licensee — $3 per 1,000. No login, no API key, no CAPTCHA, no proxy needed.

Source: the Florida Department of Health's Medical Quality Assurance license verification portal — the state's designated primary source for license verification, which is the standard a credentialing file has to meet.

3,481,761 license records across 36 boards and 237 professions, measured 2026-08-12 as the sum of the portal's own authoritative per-board totals — not quoted from a marketing page. Filter by board, profession, county, city, ZIP, last name, first name, business name or license status.

{
  "board": "15",
  "profession": "1501",
  "county": "13",
  "detailLevel": "license",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Click Try for free and hit Start — that is the input the Actor ships with. Measured 2026-08-12: 100 practicing Bay County physicians, full license depth, 29 seconds, coverage verified 100.0% against the portal's own roster, $0.30.

Calling it from the API, an MCP client or an agent with an empty input ({}) does not fail: the run falls back to that same sample search — capped at 100 licensees, $0.30 — and the log and run status name the fields to set for your own search. Nothing is charged when a search matches nothing.

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What this Actor does

Florida MQA licenses essentially every regulated health care occupation in the state — physicians, osteopaths, physician assistants, registered and practical nurses, CNAs, APRNs, dentists, dental hygienists, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy facilities, massage therapists, physical and occupational therapists, psychologists, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, chiropractors, optometrists, podiatrists, acupuncturists, speech-language pathologists and audiologists, respiratory therapists, dietitians, athletic trainers, EMTs and paramedics, EMS provider organizations, clinical laboratory personnel, opticians, orthotists and prosthetists, genetic counselors, midwives, electrologists, hearing aid specialists, nursing home administrators, radiation-control licensees, 911 telecommunicators and out-of-state telehealth providers.

It serves two jobs from one input form:

1. Primary-source verification. Paste the license numbers you already hold. Each resolves straight to its own DOH verification page, all statuses searched, so a revoked or null-and-void license still verifies. Numbers that match nothing are named in the log, written to the key-value store, and never charged.
2. Bulk extraction. Pick a board, profession and location and pull the slice — at roster depth the whole slice arrives in a single request.

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Why scrape MQA yourself when this exists?

Every one of these is a measured behaviour of the live portal, not a hypothetical:

• The portal's CSV export truncates silently. Over a certain slice size it returns HTTP 200, a correct text/csv content-type, a valid header row — and zero data rows. A naive scraper reports that as a successful empty run. Numbers below.
• The obvious pagination fix is the bug. The results grid offers a "sort by license number" link and pinning it looks like the way to make offset paging stable. The portal discards that re-sorted set after about a minute and reverts to name order mid-walk, silently dropping licensees.
• Neither county nor license status partitions the data. Filtering by all 67 counties reaches 55.3% of physicians; the state's own two status buckets reach 99.78%. Split a big slice on either axis and you lose rows without being told.
• Search results live in the session, not the query string — /IndexPaged?page=N is driven by a cookie, so a concurrent second search corrupts the first one's walk.
• A profession code only works with its own board, and a mismatched pair returns no result count at all rather than an error.
• Address of record is withheld on non-practicing licenses and the portal substitutes a "contact the Department" notice in the same slot — parse it naively and you ship that sentence as a street address.
• Deceased licensees carry no address block at all, a different shape again.
• Dates arrive as both M/D/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY, and the verification page prints some statuses with a dangling separator ("Null And Void/") where the CSV export prints "Null And Void".
• Discipline lives on a separate lazy-loaded tab, keyed by an internal LicInd you only get from the results grid, and the document PDFs are behind a POST with an opaque base64 document key.
• Some professions have no practitioner profile at all. Florida publishes it for physicians, PAs and ARNPs only — a scraper that promises e-mails on nurses is promising a field the state does not publish.

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Quick start

1. Open the Actor and click Try for free.
2. Either paste license numbers into License numbers to verify, or leave the input exactly as it ships (Board of Medicine → Medical Doctor → Bay County → license depth → 100 rows).
3. Hit Start. The default run finishes in about 30 seconds.
4. Open the Dataset tab and export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or JSONL.

Time to first data: under a minute, no coding.

Verify one license in a single HTTP call (Python)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("scrapersdelight/florida-medical-license-scraper").call(run_input={
    "licenseNumbers": ["ME58861", "RN9268431", "ME68270"],
    "detailLevel": "profile",
})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row["licenseNumber"], row["licenseStatus"], row["licenseExpirationDate"],
          row["disciplineOnFile"], row["email"])

Bulk pull (Node.js / TypeScript)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('scrapersdelight/florida-medical-license-scraper').call({
    profession: '1711',        // Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
    county: '23',              // Miami-Dade
    licenseStatus: 'ACT',
    detailLevel: 'license',
    maxItems: 2000,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`${items.length} practicing Miami-Dade APRNs`);

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapersdelight~florida-medical-license-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"board":"17","profession":"1701","city":"ORLANDO","detailLevel":"roster","maxItems":5000}'

The killer one-liner: synchronous single-license verification

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapersdelight~florida-medical-license-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"licenseNumber":"ME58861","detailLevel":"profile"}'

The finished record comes back in the HTTP response. That is a credentialing check as a single API call, billed at $0.003, with no polling and no webhook.

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The wedge: this is the primary source, and it carries the discipline file

Every commercial provider-data product — Healthgrades, Vitals, Doximity, an NPI-derived list — is a secondary source. A credentialing file that has to withstand an audit needs the state board itself. This Actor reads the board itself, and it returns the two things the aggregators do not have:

1. The disciplinary and public-complaint file, structured. Every discipline case, emergency action and public complaint on file, each with its case number, the action taken, and the portal's own document key:

"disciplinaryActions": [
  { "type": "Discipline Case",  "caseNumber": "201816816",
    "actionTaken": "Obligation(s) Satisfied", "documentId": "Mzg5Mzk4NDQ=" },
  { "type": "Public Complaint", "caseNumber": "201816816",
    "actionTaken": "AC Filed",                "documentId": "MzcxMzc3MzI=" }
]

Actions seen across the measured runs: AC Filed · Obligation(s) Satisfied · Obligations Imposed · Revocation · Voluntary Surrender · Suspension Satisfied · Fine · Letter of Concern. documentId is the portal's own key — POST it as id to /MQASearchServices/Document to pull the signed order PDF.

Measured rarity: 7 of 100 practicing Bay County physicians and 3 of 200 practicing Gainesville physicians carried at least one enforcement entry; on a 300-licensee all-statuses Bay County run, 26 of 300 did. A discipline flag is rare, which is exactly why the buyers who need it cannot sample for it — they need the whole file.

2. The status and expiry that decide whether someone may legally work today. licenseStatus, isPracticing, licenseExpirationDate and daysUntilExpiry were 100% filled on both measured runs. That is a renewal-reminder product and a network-integrity product in four fields.

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Read this before you buy rows

1. An address of record exists only for practicing licenses. Florida withholds it for Null-and-Void, Retired, Revoked, Deceased and Voluntarily-Relinquished licenses — and for a small number of otherwise-active ones — and prints a "contact the Department" notice instead. This Actor never passes that notice off as a street address: it sets addressWithheld: true and leaves the address fields null. DOH uses two wordings for that notice ("further information is needed…" and "This practitioner does not have an address of record on file with the department…"); both are detected as of 2026-08-19. The 300-licensee table below was measured before the second wording was handled, so its address column counts a handful of notice rows as addresses — the 100-row table in the next section is the post-fix measurement.

Measured on a full 300-licensee Bay County physician run, all statuses:

	rows	address	ZIP	expiry date
Practicing (Clear/Active etc.)	183	100%	97%	100%
Non-practicing (Null & Void, Deceased, Retired, Revoked…)	117	9%	8%	65%

That is why License status defaults to Practicing only. Switch it to All statuses when you are credentialing and need to see the bad ones — a license-number lookup always searches all statuses anyway, so a revoked license still verifies.

2. A county filter silently excludes about 45% of licensees. Only about 55% of Florida licensees have a Florida county on file; the rest hold a Florida license at an out-of-state address. Measured: the 67 counties sum to 96,534 of 174,569 physicians = 55.3%. Filter by county only when you actually mean "practises in this county". county is echoed onto each row when you filter by it — DOH prints no county anywhere in its output, so the field is null otherwise (measured 0% on the unfiltered Gainesville run).

3. The practitioner profile — e-mail, specialty, hospitals — exists only for physicians. Florida publishes it for MDs, DOs, PAs and ARNPs, not for nurses, dentists or pharmacists. On those, detailLevel: "profile" costs nothing extra and simply leaves those fields null.

4. lastName and firstName are null on two kinds of row, deliberately. On the license-number path, the verification page prints the name in display order only ("PATRICIA LIPFORD ABBITT") with no comma to split on, and this Actor will not guess a surname out of "JOHN VAN DER BERG". On facility licenses the comma is a corporate suffix — "Holiday CVS, LLC" is a company, not a person called LLC. In both cases name holds exactly what DOH printed. Search-driven runs on people (board / profession / county) do get the comma form and were split 100% on both measured runs.

5. board and boardCode are null when you did not filter by board. DOH does not print the board on the verification page; it is known only from the search you ran. The profession is always present and is the finer-grained field anyway.

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What you get — one row per licensee

Identity

Field	Type	Notes
licenseNumber	string	e.g. ME58861, RN9268431. The dedupe key, with professionCode.
name	string	Exactly as DOH printed it. LAST, FIRST MIDDLE on search runs, display order on license-number lookups.
lastName / firstName	string | null	Split only when DOH supplies the comma form — see gotcha 4.
profession	string	e.g. Medical Doctor, Registered Nurse.
professionCode	string	e.g. 1501, 1701.
board / boardCode	string | null	Populated when you filtered by board.

Status and dates — all dates are ISO-8601 YYYY-MM-DD

Field	Type	Notes
licenseStatus	string	Clear/Active, Null And Void, Retired, Revoked, Probation/Active, Military Active, Obligations/Active, Conditional/Active, Clear/Inactive, Vol Relinquish, Delinquent, Deceased…
isPracticing	boolean	True for the five statuses the portal itself counts as practicing.
licenseOriginalIssueDate	date
licenseExpirationDate	date
daysUntilExpiry	integer	Negative when already expired. Computed at scrape time.

Address of record

Field	Type	Notes
addressLine1 / addressLine2	string | null
city / state / zip	string | null
county	string | null	Echoed from your filter; DOH never prints it.
addressWithheld	boolean	true = DOH published a "contact the Department" notice instead of an address.

Regulatory

Field	Type	Notes
disciplineOnFile / publicComplaint	boolean	The portal's own flags.
disciplinaryActions	array | null	{type, name, license, profession, city, state, caseNumber, actionTaken, documentId}
controlledSubstancePrescriber	boolean	Chronic non-malignant pain prescriber flag.
authorizedToOrderCannabis	boolean | null	Null means the portal did not render the row at all — see limits.
qualifications	string | null	e.g. Dispensing Practitioner.

Practitioner profile (physicians, PAs and ARNPs only; detailLevel: "profile")

Field	Type	Notes
email	string | null	The address the practitioner published for contact.
specialtyCertifications	array | null	{specialtyBoard, certification, dateCertified}
hospitalPrivileges	array | null	{institution, city, state}
otherStateLicenses	array | null	{state, profession}
medicaidParticipant	boolean | null
practiceAddress	string | null
yearBeganPracticing	string | null	As DOH prints it on the profile — usually a full date (07/01/1996), sometimes blank.
profileAvailable	boolean	Whether DOH publishes a profile for this licensee at all.

Provenance

Field	Type	Notes
licenseVerificationUrl	string	The exact DOH page this row came from — put it in the credentialing file.
sourceUrl / scrapedAt	string	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp.
detailLevel	string	The depth this row was actually built at.

Key-value store artifact: NOT_FOUND_LICENSE_NUMBERS — the license numbers from a batch run that matched nothing. Written only when there are some.

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Field fill — measured, not estimated

Every run prints its own measured fill in the log. These two tables are from real runs on 2026-08-12.

A. License depth — 100 practicing Bay County physicians (29 s)

Field	Fill
licenseNumber, name, lastName, firstName, profession, professionCode, board, boardCode, county	100%
licenseStatus, isPracticing, licenseExpirationDate, licenseOriginalIssueDate, daysUntilExpiry	100%
city	100%
disciplineOnFile, publicComplaint, controlledSubstancePrescriber, addressWithheld, profileAvailable	100%
addressLine1, zip, state	98%
addressLine2	32%
qualifications	22%
disciplinaryActions	7%
authorizedToOrderCannabis	6%
email, specialtyCertifications, hospitalPrivileges, otherStateLicenses, medicaidParticipant	0% (license depth does not fetch the profile)

Boolean breakdown on the same 100 rows: controlledSubstancePrescriber 29 true / 71 false · disciplineOnFile 6 true / 94 false · publicComplaint 6 true / 94 false · addressWithheld 2 true / 98 false. Seven rows carried at least one enforcement entry.

B. Profile depth — 200 practicing Gainesville physicians (67 s)

Field	Fill
Identity, status, dates, addressLine1, city, practiceAddress	100%
zip, state	98%
email	88%
medicaidParticipant	66%
yearBeganPracticing	63% (re-measured 2026-08-19 on 30 Gainesville physicians; 0% before that build — see changelog)
hospitalPrivileges	57%
specialtyCertifications	50%
otherStateLicenses	50%
addressLine2	48%
qualifications	28%
disciplinaryActions	2%
authorizedToOrderCannabis	0%
county	0% (no county filter was applied)

medicaidParticipant on those 200: 56 true, 76 false, 68 null — null means DOH rendered no Medicaid statement, which is not the same as "does not participate".

The headline that could mislead you: e-mail is a physician field, not a Florida field. 88% on practicing Gainesville physicians; 0% on nurses, dentists, pharmacists and every other board, because Florida does not publish a practitioner profile for them. Plan against the table that matches the board you are actually pulling.

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Three depths

detailLevel	Requests	What you get
roster	1 for the whole slice	license number, name, profession, city, status
license (what the form ships prefilled with)	~1 per licensee	+ address of record, original issue date, expiry, days-until-expiry, controlled-substance flag, cannabis-order authority, qualifications, disciplinary actions & public complaints
profile	~2 per licensee	+ e-mail, specialty board certifications, hospital staff privileges, Medicaid participation, other-state licenses, practice address (physicians, PAs and ARNPs only)

The price per licensee is identical at all three depths. Depth buys you fields and costs you time, never money.

roster reads the portal's own bulk export, so 13,853 Miami physicians came back in a single request — verified 100% against the portal's authoritative count. Use it to size a job or to build a license-number list, then re-run the interesting subset at license or profile depth.

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How to run it

Verify a batch of licenses you already hold

{
  "licenseNumbers": ["ME58861", "RN9268431", "ME68270"],
  "detailLevel": "profile"
}

One search request per number, all statuses. Measured 2026-08-12: 4 numbers in, 3 resolved, 1 bogus number reported and not charged, 7 seconds. Verifying 500 numbers in one run costs exactly the same as 500 single-number runs and takes a fraction of the wall time — but maxItems caps the batch as well as a search, and it ships at 100, so raise it to at least the length of your list ("maxItems": 500) or the run stops at the cap and says so in the log.

Pull a profession statewide, cheaply

{ "profession": "1711", "licenseStatus": "ACT", "detailLevel": "roster", "maxItems": 70000 }

Every practicing APRN in Florida — 69,531 of them as of 2026-08-12 — in one request at roster depth. Leave board on "Any board": a profession is unique across boards, so the board filter adds nothing. maxItems has no wildcard: set it above the slice size you want, and the run stops at whichever comes first.

Slice a metro at full depth

{ "board": "15", "profession": "1501", "county": "23", "licenseStatus": "ACT",
  "detailLevel": "license", "maxItems": 2000 }

10,903 practicing Miami-Dade physicians match (measured 2026-08-12); this takes the first 2,000.

Renewal monitoring on a schedule

{ "profession": "1701", "county": "58", "licenseStatus": "ACT", "detailLevel": "license",
  "maxItems": 5000 }

Then filter on daysUntilExpiry between 0 and 90 in your own pipeline, and put the run on an Apify Schedule. daysUntilExpiry is computed at scrape time, so it is only as fresh as the run.

Facility licenses rather than people

{ "profession": "2205", "businessName": "CVS", "licenseStatus": "ACT", "detailLevel": "license" }

27,040 pharmacy-facility licenses exist, of which 11,036 are practicing; a businessName of CVS narrows that to 780 (all measured 2026-08-12). Those rows carry a business name in name and no person name.

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Sample rows

License depth, with a discipline file — a real row from the default run

{
  "licenseNumber": "ME68270",
  "name": "ADELBERG, JONATHAN MICHAEL",
  "lastName": "ADELBERG",
  "firstName": "JONATHAN MICHAEL",

  "profession": "Medical Doctor",
  "professionCode": "1501",
  "board": "BOARD OF MEDICINE",
  "boardCode": "15",

  "licenseStatus": "Clear/Active",
  "isPracticing": true,
  "licenseOriginalIssueDate": "1995-05-08",
  "licenseExpirationDate": "2027-01-31",
  "daysUntilExpiry": 171,

  "addressLine1": "2424 Frankford Avenue",
  "addressLine2": "Unit A",
  "city": "PANAMA CITY",
  "state": "FL",
  "zip": "32405",
  "county": "BAY",
  "addressWithheld": false,

  "controlledSubstancePrescriber": true,
  "authorizedToOrderCannabis": null,
  "qualifications": "Dispensing Practitioner",
  "disciplineOnFile": true,
  "publicComplaint": true,
  "disciplinaryActions": [
    { "type": "Discipline Case", "name": "ADELBERG, JONATHAN MICHAEL", "license": "68270",
      "profession": "Medical Doctor", "city": "PANAMA CITY", "state": "FL",
      "caseNumber": "201816816", "actionTaken": "Obligation(s) Satisfied",
      "documentId": "Mzg5Mzk4NDQ=" },
    { "type": "Public Complaint", "name": "ADELBERG, JONATHAN MICHAEL", "license": "68270",
      "profession": "Medical Doctor", "city": "PANAMA CITY", "state": "FL",
      "caseNumber": "201816816", "actionTaken": "AC Filed",
      "documentId": "MzcxMzc3MzI=" }
  ],

  "profileAvailable": true,
  "detailLevel": "license",
  "licenseVerificationUrl": "https://mqa-internet.doh.state.fl.us/MQASearchServices/HealthCareProviders/LicenseVerification?LicInd=59151&ProCde=1501",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-13T02:05:12.772Z"
}

Profile depth — a real row from the batch verification run

{
  "licenseNumber": "ME58861",
  "name": "PATRICIA LIPFORD ABBITT",
  "lastName": null,
  "firstName": null,

  "profession": "Medical Doctor",
  "professionCode": "1501",
  "board": null,
  "boardCode": null,

  "licenseStatus": "Clear/Active",
  "isPracticing": true,
  "licenseOriginalIssueDate": "1990-12-17",
  "licenseExpirationDate": "2028-01-31",
  "daysUntilExpiry": 536,

  "addressLine1": "DEPT OF RADIOLOGY - UF COM",
  "addressLine2": "1600 SW ARCHER RD - RM G-304",
  "city": "GAINESVILLE",
  "state": "FL",
  "zip": "32610",
  "addressWithheld": false,

  "controlledSubstancePrescriber": false,
  "disciplineOnFile": false,
  "publicComplaint": false,
  "disciplinaryActions": null,

  "email": "abbitp@radiology.ufl.edu",
  "medicaidParticipant": true,
  "specialtyCertifications": [
    { "specialtyBoard": "AMERICAN BOARD OF RADIOLOGY",
      "certification": "DR - DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY", "dateCertified": null }
  ],
  "hospitalPrivileges": [
    { "institution": "SHANDS HOSPITAL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLO",
      "city": "GAINESVILLE", "state": "FLORIDA" }
  ],
  "otherStateLicenses": [{ "state": "VIRGINIA", "profession": null }],
  "practiceAddress": "PATRICIA LIPFORD ABBITT, DEPT OF RADIOLOGY - UF COM, 1600 SW ARCHER RD - RM G-304, GAINESVILLE, FL 32610",
  "yearBeganPracticing": null,

  "detailLevel": "profile",
  "licenseVerificationUrl": "https://mqa-internet.doh.state.fl.us/MQASearchServices/HealthCareProviders/LicenseVerification?LicInd=49786&ProCde=1501"
}

Fields people misread:

• lastName: null on this row is the license-number path, not missing data — name is complete.
• board: null means you did not filter by board, not that the licensee has none.
• authorizedToOrderCannabis: null means the portal rendered no such row; false means it rendered one saying no. They are different facts.
• medicaidParticipant: null means DOH published no Medicaid statement, not "does not participate".
• daysUntilExpiry is negative for an already-expired license.
• disciplinaryActions[].license is the bare number DOH prints in the enforcement table (68270), without the ME prefix that licenseNumber carries.

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Input

Fifteen fields in six groups, every one of them carrying a default, in the same order as the form. Two things worth separating: the form ships prefilled with Board of Medicine → Medical Doctor → Bay County → license depth → 100 rows, which is the run you get by pressing Start; the Default column below is what applies when a field is simply omitted from an API call.

Field	Type	Default	What it does
licenseNumbers	string list	[]	Batch primary-source verification. One request per number, all statuses. Unmatched numbers are logged, saved to NOT_FOUND_LICENSE_NUMBERS and never charged.
licenseNumber	text	""	Single lookup — identical to one entry above. The run-sync API path.
board	select (36)	Any	Florida MQA board or council. Sizes in the table below.
profession	select (237)	Any	Each option is labelled with the board that owns it. Unique across boards, so it can be used alone.
professionCustom	text	""	Escape hatch — a profession name or code not in the dropdown. Overrides it.
county	select (67)	Any	Costs you ~45% of the population — see gotcha 2.
city	text	""	Exact match on DOH's spelling, e.g. GAINESVILLE.
zipCode	text	""	5-digit ZIP. Tightest geographic filter, and the cheapest way to keep a deep run small.
lastName	text	""	Prefix match. Also the axis the Actor splits oversized slices on.
firstName	text	""	Prefix match.
businessName	text	""	Prefix match for facility licenses (pharmacies, labs, EMS providers).
detailLevel	select	roster	roster · license · profile. Same price at every depth. The form is prefilled with license.
licenseStatus	select	ACT	Practicing only, non-practicing only, or all. Ignored on license-number lookups, which always search all statuses.
maxItems	integer	100	Row cap and your billing cap. 0 is not a wildcard — set a number.
proxyConfiguration	proxy	off	Leave off. Measured ladder below.

The 36 boards, with the size of each (measured 2026-08-12)

Code	Board	Records
17	BOARD OF NURSING	1,573,814
22	BOARD OF PHARMACY	272,596
15	BOARD OF MEDICINE	269,685
25	BUREAU OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES	258,162
76	RADIATION CONTROL	179,419
14	BOARD OF MASSAGE THERAPY	152,118
52	BOARD OF CSW/MFT/MHC	122,492
7	BOARD OF DENTISTRY	105,285
66	BOARD OF CLINICAL LABORATORY PERSONNEL	77,360
55	BOARD OF PHYSICAL THERAPY PRACTICE	62,806
30	SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY	50,979
57	BOARD OF RESPIRATORY CARE	44,975
96	OUT-OF-STATE TELEHEALTH PROVIDERS	43,552
56	BOARD OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PRACTICE	38,928
5	BOARD OF CHIROPRACTIC MEDICINE	37,149
19	BOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE	35,258
26	EMS PROVIDERS	29,739
24	PUBLIC SAFETY TELECOMMUNICATIONS	22,688
20	BOARD OF OPTICIANRY	17,563
61	DIETETICS AND NUTRITION PRACTICE COUNCIL	15,682
27	BOARD OF PSYCHOLOGY	11,666
18	BOARD OF OPTOMETRY	10,538
65	ELECTROLYSIS COUNCIL	8,951
21	BOARD OF PODIATRIC MEDICINE	8,296
10	BOARD OF ATHLETIC TRAINING	7,859
8	NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS	5,706
36	BOARD OF HEARING AID SPECIALISTS	5,549
38	BOARD OF ACUPUNCTURE	4,750
31	BOARD OF ORTHOTISTS AND PROSTHETISTS	2,326
41	BOARD OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY	2,025
60	ADVISORY COUNCIL OF MEDICAL PHYSICIST	1,981
53	GENETIC COUNSELING	982
32	COUNCIL OF LICENSED MIDWIFERY	524
62	HEALTH CARE SERVICES POOLS	279
16	BOARD OF NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE	56
54	CERTIFIED SOCIAL WORKERS	23

Total: 3,481,761.

The professions worth knowing the size of (measured 2026-08-12)

Code	Profession	All statuses	Practicing
1701	Registered Nurse	790,880	395,219
4401	Certified Nursing Assistant	484,858	152,572
1702	Licensed Practical Nurse	213,475	62,469
1501	Medical Doctor	174,575	91,039
2501	Emergency Medical Technician	161,484	50,538
2208	Registered Pharmacy Technician	137,615	59,709
1401	Massage Therapist	107,519	36,723
1711	Advanced Practice Registered Nurse	82,864	69,531
2502	Paramedic	65,416	39,928
2201	Pharmacist	60,144	37,204
5501	Physical Therapist	41,387	21,678
702	Dental Hygienist	32,905	19,225
701	Dentist	30,279	18,638
2205	Pharmacy (facility)	27,040	11,036
5601	Occupational Therapist	25,482	12,996
3001	Speech-Language Pathologist	24,868	13,924
1512	Physician Assistant	23,833	15,673
1901	Osteopathic Physician	22,892	13,122
501	Chiropractic Physician	14,964	7,583
2701	Psychologist	11,262	7,009
1801	Optometrist	6,627	4,247
2101	Podiatric Physician	4,418	1,853

The dropdown carries all 237. Note how far "all statuses" sits above "practicing": more than half of every registry in Florida is historical. The default keeps you on the practicing half.

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Pricing

$0.003 per licensee returned — $3 per 1,000. Charged on the licensee-scraped event. No monthly platform fee from this Actor.

The same rate applies at every depth: a roster row, a license row with the full disciplinary file, and a profile row with e-mail and hospital privileges all cost $0.003. Depth costs the Actor requests, not you money.

Run	Licensees	Cost
The default first click (Bay County physicians)	100	$0.30
Every practicing physician in Bay County	460	$1.38
Every practicing physician in Gainesville	2,326	$6.98
Every practicing physician in Miami-Dade	10,903	$32.71
Every practicing physician in Florida	91,039	$273.12
Every practicing APRN in Florida	69,531	$208.59

What you are not charged for:

• License numbers in a batch that match nothing. No row, no charge — and they are named in NOT_FOUND_LICENSE_NUMBERS so you know which.
• Duplicates. Rows are deduplicated on licenseNumber + professionCode before anything is pushed, so the dataset and your bill never hold the same licensee twice.
• The Actor's own retries, roster cross-checks, refinement splits, or the repair lookups it runs to reach 100% coverage. Those are requests, and requests are free to you.
• Rows above your cap. maxItems is a hard ceiling on both rows and spend.

Rows are charged as they are pushed (Actor.pushData(items, 'licensee-scraped')), so if you hit a budget cap you get whole rows and a stop, never a half-billed dataset.

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Honest limits

• No e-mail addresses outside physicians. Florida publishes a practitioner profile for MDs, DOs, PAs and ARNPs only. Measured 88% e-mail fill on 200 practicing Gainesville physicians and 0% on every other board — not because the scrape failed, but because the state does not publish it. If you need contactable nurses, dentists or pharmacists, this is not the product; take the name + city + licenseNumber from here and enrich elsewhere.
• No phone numbers, for anyone. MQA publishes an address of record and, for physicians, an e-mail. There is no phone field on the portal, so there is none here, and nothing can produce one from this source.
• Address is a mailing address of record, not a practice location. It is frequently a hospital department, a university mailroom, a billing service or a home. practiceAddress on profile-depth physician rows is closer to a practice location, but it is self-reported.
• Non-practicing licensees are mostly blank. 9% address fill, 8% ZIP, 65% expiry, measured on 117 rows. That is DOH withholding, not a scraping failure. It also means a run with License status = All statuses returns a great many thin rows, and you are billed for them.
• A county filter reaches 55.3% of the population. Detailed above. Not a bug, a property of the state's data.
• authorizedToOrderCannabis is null on the overwhelming majority of rows — 94 of 100 on the Bay County run and 199 of 200 on the Gainesville run — because the portal renders that row only for the licensees it applies to. Do not read null as "not authorised".
• Counts drift daily. DOH refreshes nightly, and two reads of the same slice hours apart on 2026-08-12 returned 174,569 and 174,575 physicians. Treat every count on this page as accurate to the day it was measured, not to the row.
• roster depth cannot be filtered on anything the roster does not carry. It returns license number, name, profession, city and status; if you need to filter on expiry or discipline you must pay for license depth first.
• No login, no API key, no CAPTCHA solving, no browser automation. The Actor reads public pages and the portal's own CSV export. It does not attempt any authenticated area, and there is nothing behind a login that it works around.

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How it works, and what was measured

The whole data path is public and unauthenticated:

Step	Endpoint	Purpose
1	GET /HealthCareProviders	Session cookie, __RequestVerificationToken, and the live board / county / status dropdowns
2	POST /HealthCareProviders	Returns "Search Results Total: N" — the authoritative count, and binds the session to this result set
3	GET /ExportToCsvLVP?jsonModel={…}	Stateless bulk export — the whole result set as CSV in one request (174,569 rows / 13.7 MB in 31 s measured)
4	GET /IndexPaged?page=N	20 rows per page, session-bound; yields the internal LicInd the detail pages are keyed by
5	GET /LicenseVerification?LicInd=&ProCde=	Address, issue and expiry dates, flags
6	GET /LoadEnforcementActionsTab?…	Discipline cases, emergency actions, public complaints
7	GET /Details?LicInd=&ProCde=	Practitioner profile (physicians only)

The board, county and profession lists are re-read from the live form on every run, so a code change on DOH's side cannot silently mis-map a search. The Actor keeps two separate cookie jars: the search session drives /IndexPaged, and detail pages — which need neither cookie nor token — get their own jar so nothing goes near the fragile paged walk.

Transport ladder — 18 identical calls per rung, measured through Apify

Route	Success	Time
Direct, no proxy	18/18 = 100%	28 s
Apify automatic proxy	16/18 = 88.9%	298 s
Apify RESIDENTIAL, US, pinned session	18/18 = 100%	98 s

The portal is public and unwalled. Proxying it only adds a failure mode — the two automatic-proxy failures were proxy responded with 590 UPSTREAM502 — and 3.5× the latency. So the default is no proxy at all, which is also the cheapest rung there is. Detail pages run at concurrency 5, measured 30/30 successful at that level.

The silent-truncation trap

ExportToCsvLVP has an undocumented size ceiling and blows it silently: HTTP 200, correct text/csv content-type, valid header row, zero data rows. Measured:

Slice	Authoritative count	Rows the export returned
Medical Doctor, statewide	174,569	174,569 ✅
All of Dentistry	105,284	105,284 ✅
All of Pharmacy	272,593	0 ❌
Registered Nurse	790,875	0 ❌
All of Nursing	1,573,806	0 ❌

So the row count is never trusted on its own. Every run reads the authoritative "Search Results Total" first and reconciles against it. A short read is retried — a partial file is often just server load; one slice came back 7,622 of 12,340 and then 6 of 6 clean retries returned all 12,340 — and if the slice is genuinely oversized it is split by last-name prefix, with every leaf re-verified against its own authoritative total.

Last name is the only axis that actually partitions the data. A–Z sums to 174,561 of 174,569 physicians (100.00%) and 790,805 of 790,875 registered nurses (99.99%), where county sums to 55.3% and the state's own status buckets to 99.78% (ACT 91,034 + PREV 83,150 = 174,184 — four statuses, Clear/Inactive among them, sit in neither bucket).

Pagination: the obvious fix is the bug

The results grid offers /IndexSorted?fieldToSort=1 to order by license number, and the instinct is to pin it so offset paging is stable. On this portal that is exactly backwards — the re-sorted result set is a transient the server discards after about a minute, silently reverting to name order mid-walk. Measured over one complete 38-page slice, 5 s between pages to imitate hydration latency, checked against the CSV export of the same slice:

	fetched	unique	lost
Sort pinned	758	743	15 licensees
Default order (what this Actor uses)	758	758	0

A fast walk hides it entirely — eight pages back-to-back produce zero duplicates either way — which is what makes it a trap.

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Uniqueness and coverage

Rows are deduplicated on licenseNumber + professionCode before they are pushed, so a duplicate is never delivered and never billed. Beyond that, license and profile runs do something most scrapers do not: they reconcile the license numbers they hydrated against the authoritative CSV roster for the same slice, and repair any straggler by direct license-number lookup.

Measured 2026-08-12 on contiguous page walks:

Run	Expected	Emitted	Duplicates	Verified coverage
100 practicing Bay County physicians, license depth	100	100	0	100.0%
200 practicing Gainesville physicians, profile depth	200	200	0	100.0%

That verified-coverage line is printed by every license and profile run whose slice was small enough to cross-check against a complete CSV roster. A roster run stopped by maxItems prints the cap it stopped at instead, and a license-number batch prints its own accounting — the resolved count and the unmatched numbers by name. Across runs there is no cross-run dedupe — re-running the same slice returns the same licensees. Use lastName prefixes or ZIP to partition a large job into non-overlapping runs.

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When a run fails

The Actor is built to fail loudly rather than hand you a green, empty dataset:

• Zero rows throws. If the portal reported matches and the Actor extracted none, the run errors with the reported total instead of finishing successfully on an empty dataset.
• A batch where nothing resolves throws, and says so: "None of the N license numbers matched a Florida DOH/MQA licensee", with the reminder that DBPR numbers (CGC…, CFC…, SL…) belong to a different agency.
• A missing verification token throws rather than submitting a search that cannot work: "The page layout has changed — the Actor cannot submit a search without it."
• An unknown board, profession or county throws with the live list of valid values, read from the portal in that same run. An ambiguous partial name throws with the candidates it matched.
• A profession that does not belong to the selected board does not throw — the board is dropped with a warning, because the result set is provably identical either way.
• A short read warns loudly with the exact shortfall and tells you which filter to narrow.
• A slice that stays short after three retries and three levels of prefix refinement throws rather than shipping a partial directory as if it were complete.
• Unmatched license numbers are never silent: named in the log and written to NOT_FOUND_LICENSE_NUMBERS in the key-value store.

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Who buys this

• Provider credentialing and primary-source-verification platforms — Verifiable, Medallion, Certify, Silversheet and every hospital medical-staff office. licenseStatus, both dates, disciplinaryActions and licenseVerificationUrl are the PSV packet, and the URL is the citation the auditor asks for.
• Payors and provider-network integrity teams — licenseStatus plus disciplinaryActions plus medicaidParticipant is a monthly network sanction sweep. 6% of the practicing physicians in the measured run carried a discipline flag.
• Healthcare staffing, travel nursing and locum agencies — 395,219 practicing registered nurses and 69,531 practicing APRNs, sliceable by county and city, with expiry dates for renewal timing.
• Medical device and pharma field teams — the 29% of measured physicians flagged as controlled-substance prescribers, and the 57% with hospital staff privileges naming the institution, are a targeting layer Google Maps cannot give you.
• Malpractice and professional-liability underwriters — years since original issue, discipline history with case numbers, and other-state licensure on 50% of profile rows.
• Healthcare M&A and market researchers — practitioner density by county and profession, from a registry of 3,481,761 records with a measured population per board.
• Legal and investigative teams — the case numbers and documentId keys lead to the signed order PDFs on the state's own document endpoint.

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Which of our Florida / healthcare Actors do you need?

Actor	What it is	Why you would use it instead
This one	Florida DOH / MQA — health care practitioners	Doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, therapists. Discipline file. Primary source.
Florida Contractor License Scraper — DBPR	Florida DBPR — the other Florida licensing agency	Contractors, real estate, cosmetology, CPAs. A CGC… or SL… number belongs there, not here.
NPI Registry Scraper	The federal NPPES/NPI registry, all 50 states	You need providers nationwide, or you need an NPI. MQA does not publish NPIs.
Healthgrades Scraper	Consumer directory — doctors and dentists	You want ratings, reviews and phone numbers. Not a primary source, but it has the phone this one does not.
Wellness.com Provider Scraper	Consumer directory — practices and providers	Practice-level contact data and specialties.

The short version: Healthgrades is where you go for a phone number; this is where you go for the license status, the expiry date and the disciplinary file.

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Integrations

The dataset exports as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and JSONL, and the Apify API serves it directly:

• Google Sheets — IMPORTDATA against the dataset's CSV endpoint for a live credentialing sheet.
• Make / Zapier / n8n — trigger on run finished, iterate items, push rows whose daysUntilExpiry < 90 into a renewal queue.
• Postgres / BigQuery / Snowflake — load licenseNumber as the natural key; scrapedAt gives you the as-of timestamp every compliance table needs.
• Salesforce / HubSpot — match on licenseNumber, write licenseStatus and licenseExpirationDate back onto the provider record.
• Slack / Teams alerts — webhook on any row where disciplineOnFile flipped to true since your last pull.
• Scheduling — put a county or profession slice on an Apify Schedule and diff against your own store; the Actor has no monitor mode of its own.

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This Actor versus the alternatives

	This Actor	Manual portal lookup	Your own scraper	A paid credentialing API
Setup	Minutes	None	Days, plus the seven traps above	Contract + onboarding
Bulk extraction	Yes, whole boards	No, one at a time	Yes, if you solve truncation and pagination	Usually per-lookup only
Disciplinary file	Structured, with document IDs	Manual tab-clicking	Extra work	Sometimes
Cost per 1,000	$3.00	Staff time	Dev + proxy + maintenance	Typically per-seat or per-verification
Primary source	Yes — DOH itself	Yes	Yes	Often an aggregated copy

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FAQ

Does this need an account, a login or an API key? No. Every endpoint it reads is public and unauthenticated. There is no login and no CAPTCHA solving.

Does it need a proxy? No, and it ships with the proxy off. Measured 18/18 direct versus 16/18 through Apify's automatic proxy, at a third of the latency. Turn one on only if your own network policy needs a fixed egress IP.

Can I verify a list of license numbers I already have? Yes — that is what licenseNumbers is for. One search request per number, all statuses searched, and numbers that match nothing are listed in NOT_FOUND_LICENSE_NUMBERS and never charged.

Is this the primary source, or a copy? It reads the Florida Department of Health's own MQA verification portal, which is the state's designated primary source. Every row carries the exact licenseVerificationUrl it came from.

Can I get the whole registry in one run? Not in one run, no. The whole index is 3,481,761 records across 36 boards, and the portal's CSV export truncates silently on big slices: the largest that came back complete was 174,569 rows and the smallest that came back empty was 272,593, so the ceiling sits somewhere between the two. The Actor splits oversized slices by last-name prefix automatically, but a sane job is one board or one profession at a time.

Why is the e-mail field empty on my nurses? Because Florida does not publish a practitioner profile for nurses. It publishes one for physicians, PAs and ARNPs — measured 88% e-mail fill there, 0% everywhere else.

Why do so many rows have no address? You are looking at non-practicing licenses. Florida withholds the address of record on Null-and-Void, Retired, Revoked and Deceased licenses: 9% address fill on those versus 100% on practicing ones.

Do I get charged for rows my filters removed, or for the Actor's retries? No. You are billed per licensee actually delivered, on the licensee-scraped event. Retries, roster cross-checks, refinement splits and repair lookups are requests, and requests are free to you.

Two runs — will I get duplicates? Within a run, never: rows are deduplicated on licenseNumber + professionCode before they are pushed, so a duplicate is never delivered or billed. Across runs there is no memory — re-running the same slice returns the same licensees. Partition with lastName prefixes or ZIP.

Will a run ever succeed with zero rows? No. If the portal reported matches and nothing was extracted, the run throws with the reported total rather than finishing green on an empty dataset. A batch where no number resolves throws too.

How fresh is the data? It is read live from the portal at run time. DOH refreshes its public database nightly; two reads of the same slice hours apart on 2026-08-12 differed by six rows.

What is documentId for? It is the portal's own document key for a disciplinary order. POST it as id to /MQASearchServices/Document to retrieve the signed PDF.

Does it cover Florida contractors, realtors or cosmetologists? No — those are licensed by DBPR, a different agency. Use our Florida Contractor License Scraper (DBPR).

Something looks wrong — how do I debug it? A search run logs its criteria, the portal's authoritative match count, per-page progress and — when the slice was small enough to cross-check against a full roster — the verified coverage percentage. A license-number batch logs the resolved count and every unmatched number by name instead. Every run ends with a per-field fill line. Compare those against the numbers on this page; if they diverge, open an issue on the Issues tab with the run ID.

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Legal and fair use

This Actor reads public records published by the Florida Department of Health, Division of Medical Quality Assurance, under Florida's public-records law. It reads only pages the portal serves to any anonymous visitor: the search form, the search results, the portal's own CSV export, the license verification page, the enforcement-actions tab and the practitioner profile. It does not log in, it holds no credentials, it solves no CAPTCHAs, and it collects nothing behind any authentication.

Rows describe identifiable people and include names, mailing addresses, license history and, for physicians, e-mail addresses and disciplinary records. You are responsible for complying with the Florida Department of Health's terms and with how you use the data, including CAN-SPAM and TCPA if you contact anyone, GDPR/UK GDPR if any data subject is in scope, and your own regulator's rules on provider outreach. Disciplinary records are public record; using them in a decision about an individual's credit, insurance, employment or housing may bring you under the FCRA, and this output is not a consumer report. License status can change the moment after a row is scraped — every row carries licenseVerificationUrl and scrapedAt so you can re-verify at the source before acting.

This Actor is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Florida Department of Health or the State of Florida.

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Changelog

Version	Date	Change
0.2.10	2026-08-20	Cost-limit handling. The run now reads your "Maximum cost per run" up front and lowers its own row cap to what that budget pays for, so no licensee is ever scraped that could not be delivered — and it reads the charge result of every push, so it stops the moment the platform reports the cap reached instead of scraping on into a wall you are paying compute for. Rows returned and rows charged are the same number in every case; the run says which limit stopped it (cost or time), never both. Proof: a run capped at $0.05 returned 16 rows and charged 16 ($0.048), SUCCEEDED in 9.4 s with "Stopped at this run's maximum total charge with 16 licensee(s) delivered". Memory right-sized 4096 MB -> 512 MB. Compute bills linearly with memory, so this cuts the compute cost of every run by 8x at no change to the data. Peak memory measured across the heaviest runs (full 174,569-row statewide CSV; three 120-second unbounded runs) was 200.0 MiB — 2.6x headroom.
0.2.6	2026-08-19	Address fix. DOH publishes the address-withheld notice in two wordings and only one was detected, so rows carrying "This practitioner does not have an address of record on file with the department…" shipped that sentence as addressLine1 with addressWithheld: false (and "NOT PRACTICING" as addressLine2). Both wordings are now detected. Measured on the same 100-row Bay County slice: addressLine1 100% -> 98%, addressLine2 34% -> 32%, addressWithheld 0 true -> 2 true, notice-in-address rows 2 -> 0. yearBeganPracticing fix. Its selector expected a bare <dd>; the profile page uses <dd class="col-md-9">, so it never matched — 0% on every profile run ever shipped. Now 63% (19/30 Gainesville physicians). The key is also declared on the record template, so every row carries the same field set.
0.2	2026-08-12	Batch licenseNumbers verification with unmatched-number reporting. Board, profession and county became dropdowns read from the live portal (36 / 237 / 67). Default depth is now license, default cap 100. lastName/firstName are null instead of wrong on license-number lookups. Field-fill, board-size and profession-size tables re-measured.
0.1	2026-08-12	First release. Verified against the live portal on 2026-08-12.

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Keywords

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Support

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