Idaho physician licensing.

The board publishes no processing time for MD or DO applications, and Idaho law sets no deadline for the board to decide an ordinary application. Idaho law does let DOPL terminate an application with no activity for a year, and it intends licensure by endorsement within 15 business days for service members, veterans, and their spouses who can validate their status and license in that time. If you use FCVS on the examination route, FSMB says a first profile typically takes roughly 35 days. On the compact route, IMLCC’s Year 9 averages were 38 days from application to a Letter of Qualification, then 22 days from qualification to issued licenses.

$480 in Idaho fees by endorsement: the $160 application fee plus $320 for the license’s first two years, at $160 a year. By examination, the exam transcript brings it to $550 for an MD, with FSMB’s $70 USMLE transcript, or $545 for a DO, with NBOME’s $65 COMLEX-USA transcript. First-time Uniform Application users add FSMB’s one-time $60, and the charges for your license verifications and for taking your fingerprints come on top. Through the IMLC, fees are $1,020: $700 to the IMLCC plus $320 for Idaho. Prescribers add Idaho’s $100 controlled substance registration and the DEA’s $888.

Yes. Idaho enacted the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact in 2015, effective July 1, 2015, the board issues licenses through it, and Idaho can be your state of principal license. In IMLCC’s Year 9, April 2025 to March 2026, the board approved 45 Letters of Qualification and issued 565 licenses through the compact. Compact fees come to $1,020, $700 to the IMLCC plus $320 for Idaho, against $480 in Idaho fees by endorsement; the compact can still make sense when you are adding several member states, since the $700 is the initial cost of taking part and each state adds its own license fee.

Yes, if you hold a valid, unrevoked, unsuspended license in another US state, territory, or district or in Canada and have no disciplinary action of any kind. Idaho law makes anyone with a disciplinary action, past, pending, or confidential, by any medical board, licensing authority, medical or professional society, hospital, medical school, or institution staff, anywhere, ineligible for endorsement, and you also show that you can provide the standard of care Idaho physicians provide; the board may require further examination to establish it. Endorsement costs $480 in Idaho fees, and the board’s endorsement checklist, as FSMB hosts it, asks for no school, training, or exam verifications.

FCVS is not; the Uniform Application is, by FSMB’s list and the board’s instructions. FSMB lists the board among those that require its Uniform Application, and the board’s instructions, as FSMB hosts them, call it the licensure application the board requires, though the board’s web pages do not mention it and DOPL does not publish its current online application. First-time users pay FSMB a one-time $60, and a physician who has already paid it for another board pays nothing more. On the examination route the board accepts an FCVS profile without requiring one and recommends it for international graduates: $395 for a first profile or $99 for a later one, USMLE transcripts included, and FSMB says a first profile typically takes roughly 35 days.

Fingerprints yes, a jurisprudence exam no. Idaho law requires a fingerprint-based state and FBI criminal history check of every applicant by endorsement or examination, run through the Idaho State Police, and the board’s fingerprint instructions point you to a local law enforcement office or a Livescan location. Prints with a wrong or blank board identifier or reason field are rejected, and you pay to have them taken again; prints cannot be reused once submitted. Idaho has no jurisprudence exam for physicians. On the compact route, your state of principal license runs the check.

Barely. One board licenses both, at identical fees, on the same endorsement and examination routes, and the IMLCC lists a single Idaho fee. On the examination route, DOs send NBOME’s $65 COMLEX-USA transcript in place of FSMB’s $70 USMLE transcript, and the board’s CME rule counts AOA certification alongside ABMS certification.

Usually yes. Idaho law requires a license from the applicable board before you deliver care by virtual care, which it treats as rendered where the patient is, with narrow exceptions for a provider licensed and in good standing in another state: care for an established patient who is in Idaho temporarily, short-term follow-up care for an established patient, care for an Idaho facility or hospital that has privileged and credentialed you, care in a disaster, care in preparation for a scheduled in-person visit, and consulting with or referring to an Idaho-licensed provider. Exempt providers consent to Idaho law and to the jurisdiction of its courts, DOPL, and the board. Psychiatrists licensed elsewhere can instead hold Idaho’s $35 telehealth registration, which allows no in-person care.

Not on a pending application: the board’s instructions, as FSMB hosts them, say the practice of medicine is not permitted before a license issues. Idaho law lets the board provide by rule for a 120-day temporary license for a physician licensed in another state who has applied for a permanent Idaho license, but the board’s rule sets only a fee cap for it, with no procedure, and its fee table and pages list none. Outside a license, only narrow exemptions apply, such as a consultation an Idaho physician requests or virtual care in the situations Idaho law lists.

Every two years, on or before your birthday, for $320, two years at the $160 annual renewal fee. Since April 1, 2026, a new license runs at least two years and expires on your birthday, and Idaho law puts the first renewal at least 12 months after the birthday that follows initial licensure. Each renewal needs an attestation of 40 hours of practice-relevant CME in the prior two years, current board certification, or full-time residency or fellowship training, and DOPL says a license issued through the compact renews for two years plus the months to your birthday.