For a physician
For a doctor’s licence and public discipline history, go to the state board’s record. The Federation of State Medical Boards maintains this directory of state boards.
Open that board’s search and compare the licence number as well as the full name. Check for current status and public action. Ask about any name mismatch rather than assuming the record belongs to the clinician.
Some states divide doctors between separate licensing boards, so a search of a single board may be incomplete. No public discipline in a record is a limited finding. It does not grade the clinician’s work.
For the pharmacy
Pharmacies have a separate state licensing board. The FDA’s state pharmacy-search links take you to those licence records; FDA stands for Food and Drug Administration.
Shipping from another state usually requires a licence or permit in the patient’s state, under the pharmacy rules checked September 26, 2026. Names and requirements for that permission vary by state.
Write down who will prepare the medicine and who will send it. Ask for those pharmacies’ full names rather than a package or service name.
A name you can check beats a badge you can only view.
If a larger site makes the medicine
Ask whether the maker is an outsourcing facility. These are sites registered with FDA to make medicine in batches, often for use at clinics or hospitals. They do not have to be licensed pharmacies, under the rules checked September 26, 2026.
If that describes the maker, match its full name to the FDA list of registered batch-making sites. The list does not show state pharmacy-board actions, and a listed site may not yet have been inspected.
Registration is not FDA approval of a facility or its medicines, under the registration rule checked September 26, 2026.