Massachusetts medical license outside the IMLC

IMLC facts

IMLC status

Listed by IMLCC as outside the compact as of April 2026

What this means for an out-of-state physician

Apply directly to the Massachusetts board. Use the FSMB directory to find and contact the board, and confirm its current requirements before you start.

FSMB: contact a state medical board

NPs and PAs

The IMLC covers physicians only. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants should check licensing requirements directly with the relevant state board.

FSMB: contact a state medical board

In this state, in context

BLS OEWS May 2025 annual mean employee wages — physicians, all other: $247,150; nurse practitioners: $152,320; physician assistants: $146,480. The physician row is the broad “physicians, all other” category, not an average for all physicians or a particular specialty. These are employee wage estimates, not total compensation or contract rates.

Massachusetts physicians, all other pay · Massachusetts nurse practitioners pay · Massachusetts physician assistants pay · Massachusetts nurse anesthetists pay

Decision checklist for Massachusetts

• Begin with physician eligibility, rather than assuming a neighboring member state qualifies you.
• Check which license could serve as your State of Principal License.
• Ask the Massachusetts board what remains before it can issue your license.

Massachusetts is listed outside the compact in the existing source. Apply directly to its board; the compact steps describe member-state applications, not an alternative license for this state.

Find your state board (FSMB directory)

Neighbors

1 of the 5 bordering states are IMLC members: New Hampshire.

• Connecticut — status not supplied in this project.
• New Hampshire — member.
• New York — not a member.
• Rhode Island — status not supplied in this project.
• Vermont — status not supplied in this project.

Counts use shared land/river borders, exclude open-water-only and point-only contacts, and include the District of Columbia where adjacent. Count the named qualifying neighbors and divide the list into qualifying and other recorded statuses; no status is inferred for an unrecorded IMLC state.

Sources

• IMLCC statement listing states outside the compact as of April 2026 (PDF)
• FSMB: contact a state medical board

Always confirm current requirements with the state board; IMLC participation can change.