MQA continues to assess the efficiency of its licensure process by measuring the average number of days to process a license for a qualified applicant. Important distinctions exist between qualified applicants and approved applicants. Qualified applicants are defined as those who meet all the prerequisites for licensure, whereas approved applicants may still be required to satisfy supplementary requirements such as examinations. These requirements reflect the standard of care expected by practitioners in each profession. When missing key pieces of information that are required for processing, an application is considered deficient and returned to the applicant for corrections. Application requirements vary by profession, ranging from possessing a certain level of education to passing numerous competency examinations. The measurement of processing time does not begin until a completed application with all critical items has been received by MQA. MQA aims to process initial licensure applications for qualified applicants in one day or less, and met its goal in the second quarter as the average processing time was less than one day per application-a decrease when compared to the processing time of 1.12 days of the first quarter (Figure 1). MQA has kept this processing time at 1.6 days or less for the past four fiscal years, moving over 464,000 new practitioners into the workforce quickly and efficiently. PERFORMANCE STATISTICS Initial Applications MEDICAL QUALITY ASSURANCE | FY 2022-23 QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE REPORT 2 08 In the second quarter, MQA received 38,545 initial applications for licensure and issued 25,801 initial licenses to new practitioners. Figure 1: Average Days to Process an Initial Application
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