Check the person providing care

How do you check a doctor or physician assistant?

The Georgia Composite Medical Board’s lookup, documented September 28, 2026, shows license status, issue and expiration dates, and public board orders. An order is a written decision about the person’s license or conduct; read it to see the action and reason. For physician assistants it also provides approved supervisors and job descriptions.

Open the board’s own verification page using the source drawer below. Search the name you were given and compare the result with the role described by the service. If several names look similar, ask for the license number to avoid guessing.

The absence of a public order tells you about the posted board history. It cannot tell you how skilled the person is. That distinction follows the medical-board consumer information recorded September 17, 2026.

Where do you check a nurse practitioner?

The Georgia Board of Nursing points to the Secretary of State’s license search. In the September 28, 2026 record, nurse practitioners also depend on a prescribing protocol reviewed by the medical board, listed apart from the nurse’s license.

A prescribing protocol is the written agreement covering delegated prescribing. Ask which doctor is involved and how the service identifies the relevant protocol. The record reviewed September 28, 2026 describes this as a Georgia requirement, including for remote care.

Keep the questions simple: “Which name do I search?” and “Which record covers prescribing?” There is no need to infer the agreement from the person’s title alone. The service can identify the arrangement it relies on.

What if the person is based elsewhere?

For a doctor assessing someone in Georgia across state lines, the rules reviewed September 28, 2026 require Georgia authorization, subject to narrow exceptions. Another state’s license is not, by itself, the Georgia authorization.

Georgia participates in the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, a faster application path for qualifying doctors. The September 28, 2026 account says it still results in separate state licenses, rather than a national medical license.

If a service mentions compact participation, ask for the actual Georgia record. The application route and the resulting license are not the same piece of information. If your visit will happen outside Georgia, tell the service where it will occur.

What does a badge or code prove?

As of November 3, 2026, facility registration with FDA does not confer product approval. A National Drug Code directory entry also does not establish that the medicine has FDA approval.

A private accreditation and a state license are different checks. The accreditation information recorded September 17, 2026 describes a review of process standards, rather than proof about every medicine batch or clinical outcome.

Ask the service to name the specific record it wants you to rely on. Then ask what that record actually establishes. A badge can be a prompt for a question without being the final answer.

The pharmacy needs its own check. Use “Pharmacy checks” to follow the supply question through the Georgia board rather than stopping after the prescriber’s name has been found.