Getting a Kansas Medical License: Requirements, Costs, and Timeline
Kansas licenses both MDs and DOs through the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts. Kansas is a fully participating IMLC state. One thing that distinguishes Kansas from most states, every actively licensed physician is required to participate in the Kansas Health Care Stabilization Fund, a mandatory malpractice surcharge that applies as a condition of licensure.
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Overview
Getting your Kansas medical license? Here's exactly what you need to know so you can focus on practicing, not paperwork.
Who issues your license
Kansas licenses both MDs and DOs through the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts. Kansas is a fully participating IMLC state. One thing that distinguishes Kansas from most states, every actively licensed physician is required to participate in the Kansas Health Care Stabilization Fund, a mandatory malpractice surcharge that applies as a condition of licensure.
Eligibility requirements
You'll need a degree from an accredited medical school. If you graduated before January first, twenty twenty-one, you need one year of post-graduate training. If you graduated on or after January first, twenty twenty-one, you need thirty-six months with at least twenty-four of those in an ACGME-approved program. You'll also pass the Kansas Jurisprudence exam, which is open-book and online.
How to apply
Applications go through KSBHA directly or via the FSMB uniform application. One item that surprises most physicians, the Kansas Health Care Stabilization Fund requires mandatory enrollment as a condition of your active license. It carries an annual surcharge based on your specialty risk class, and it must be in place before you can practice.
What it costs
The initial application fee is three hundred dollars plus fifty dollars for the KBI and FBI background check and NPDB query. Annual renewal is three hundred and thirty dollars online. The HCSF surcharge is an additional annual cost that varies by specialty. Most licenses take sixty to ninety days from submission.
How long it takes
Apply at least four months in advance. The IMLC pathway typically issues a Kansas license in two to four weeks, though the HCSF enrollment requirement applies either way.
Where applications stall
The delays we see most often, the HCSF mandatory enrollment requirement catching physicians off guard. The twenty twenty-one post-graduate training cutoff. Graduates on or after January twenty twenty-one need thirty-six months, not twelve, and the jurisprudence exam not being scheduled before the application is submitted.
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