We know choosing an acupuncturist to refer patients to — or to see yourself — is easier when you can trust the credentials on the page. That's what the Verified badge is for.
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When you see this badge, it means AiQUIN has checked, directly on the practitioner's primary state licensing board's own public record, that:
- The practitioner's name matches their primary acupuncture license
- Their license is active, valid, and in good standing
AiQUIN verifies this at the time a profile is first marked Verified, and rechecks it automatically when the license's expiration date passes — a profile with an expired license loses its Verified status until it's renewed and reconfirmed. Outside of that expiration check, we don't continuously monitor every state board for new disciplinary actions between renewals, so we recommend confirming a practitioner's current standing yourself before relying on this badge for a care decision, the same way you'd double-check any credential that matters to you. Verify now
When we verify a license, we also update its issue and expiration dates on the profile to match what the state board shows, so the expiration recheck uses the board's date. We never change a license number: that's always entered by the practitioner, and if it doesn't match the board's record, the profile isn't verified until they correct it.
Six states can't currently produce a Verified badge through this check: Alabama, Oklahoma, and South Dakota have no public authority that licenses or tracks acupuncturists at all, and Arkansas, New Mexico, and West Virginia have a licensing board but no way to search its records online, so either way there's no public record for us to check against. A practitioner based in one of these six states isn't unverified because of anything about their actual training or standing — it's a gap in what's publicly checkable, not a mark against them.
See something on a profile that looks incorrect or out of date? Let us know and we'll take a look.
You're responsible for your own decisions about, and communications with, any acupuncturist you find through AiQUIN. AiQUIN isn't liable for actions you take in reliance on information in a profile, including a Verified badge. A profile's inclusion in AiQUIN, or its Verified status, doesn't imply our endorsement or guarantee of that practitioner's skill or fitness to practice, and we don't warrant that any profile is complete, accurate, or up to date beyond the specific check described above.
