Kansas physician licensing.

The board’s MD and DO FAQs say the application process takes on average four to eight weeks, though each application is different, and its licensing page says it cannot give an approximate date for your license, with April to July its peak for incoming applications. Kansas law sets no deadline for an ordinary application, a file in legal review has no guaranteed timeline, and an approved license issues only once your malpractice coverage takes effect. Kansas law does have the board issue a telemedicine waiver within 15 days of a complete application. 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.

$430 in published fees for an MD and $425 for a DO on the standard application: the $300 application fee, the $57 criminal background check, and the $3 NPDB report, paid to the board, plus a $70 USMLE or $65 COMLEX-USA transcript. Every active license also carries the Health Care Stabilization Fund’s surcharge, at least $200 a year, which brings the totals to $630 and $625 before your malpractice premium. Through the IMLC, fees are $1,000, $700 to the IMLCC plus $300 for Kansas, or $1,200 with the Fund’s minimum, and a telemedicine waiver costs $100 a year. An optional first FCVS profile brings the MD total to $758.50, or $958.50 with the Fund.

Yes, while your Kansas license is active: Kansas law requires every active licensee to carry malpractice coverage of at least $500,000 per claim and $1,500,000 a year and to pay the Fund’s annual surcharge, and the Fund charges at least $200 per compliance period even with no Kansas practice. Above that minimum, a nonresident pays the specialty class rate, $436 to $10,924 a year for physicians in 2026, times the share of practice in Kansas, and each compliance period follows your malpractice policy year. The Fund says a licensee no longer practicing in Kansas must convert to an inactive license to avoid both, and board policy applies the same duties to telemedicine waiver holders.

Yes. Kansas enacted the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact in 2016, effective July 1, 2016, the board issues licenses through it, and Kansas can be your state of principal license. In IMLCC’s Year 9, April 2025 to March 2026, the board approved 76 Letters of Qualification and issued 524 licenses through the compact. Compact fees come to $1,000, $700 to the IMLCC plus $300 for Kansas, and a license through the compact is a full Kansas license, so the Fund’s $200 minimum brings that to $1,200.

Yes, if you graduated on or after January 1, 2021: the board treats its standard application as licensure by examination, which asks 36 months of accredited postgraduate training of those graduates and 12 months of earlier graduates of accredited schools, as a board policy and its forms show. If you miss one requirement for licensure by examination that can be proved by other means, the policy lets the board’s executive director grant licensure by endorsement instead, provided you spent the 12 months before applying in direct patient care, at least one full day a week for 50 weeks or 400 hours. Any other request goes to the full board for a conference hearing.

Yes, or the board’s telemedicine waiver: a physician with an unrestricted license in another state, who is not the subject of any investigation or disciplinary action, can treat patients located in Kansas by telemedicine on the waiver, $100 a year, which Kansas law has the board issue within 15 days of a complete application. The board’s rules treat care for a patient located in Kansas, from anywhere, as practicing in Kansas, and the waiver covers telemedicine only. Kansas law treats waiver holders as licensees, and board policy reads that to require the same malpractice coverage and Fund surcharge. Consulting with a Kansas physician through remote technology needs neither, and a Kansas licensee needs no waiver.

No. The board accepts an FCVS profile in place of your school, training, exam, and identity documents but does not require one, and you still complete the Uniform Application and send an AMA or AOA profile. A first profile costs $395 with USMLE transcripts included, plus a $3.50 NPDB report FSMB adds for this board on top of the board’s own $3, which brings the MD total to $758.50, or $462.50 with an existing $99 profile. FSMB says it typically processes a first profile in roughly 35 days and later ones in roughly 20 days or less.

Barely. One board licenses both through the same application, the same $300 fee, and the same license designations, and the IMLCC lists a single Kansas fee. DOs may use COMLEX-USA instead of USMLE, with NBOME’s $65 transcript in place of FSMB’s $70, send an AOA profile instead of the AMA’s, and renew on a different date: DO licenses expire September 30, MD licenses June 30.

Fingerprints yes, jurisprudence exam no. Every applicant sends a fingerprint card with a signed waiver, and the board submits the prints to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation for state and national checks, at $57 paid to the board. The prints need not be taken by law enforcement, only by someone trained to take them, and electronically scanned prints must still be printed on the card. Results stay valid for 6 months, so an application completed later needs new prints and another $57. On the compact route, your state of principal license runs the check, and the telemedicine waiver needs no fingerprints.

In the same year, if your MD license issues before May 1 or your DO license before August 1, the board’s application says. Renewal costs $360 online and opens May 15 for MDs and August 15 for DOs; by rule MD licenses expire June 30 and DO licenses September 30, and the board accepts late renewals, at $100 more online, until July 31 or October 31. Your first renewal needs no CME; each later one needs one of the three CME options, such as 50 credits from the 18 months before, and every renewal needs evidence of your malpractice coverage and Fund surcharge.