Acupuncturist or Acupuncture and Eastern Medicine Practitioner

Washington State holds 1,621 active credentials of this type — 0.3% of every active health care credential in the state. Here is what that number is made of, and how to check one.

What kind of credential this is

A Acupuncturist or Acupuncture and Eastern Medicine Practitioner is a Other credential — a credential whose title does not carry one of Washington’s usual words. We do not guess which regime it falls under — the title is shown as the Department writes it.

That word is not a formality. Washington issues 26,630 active credentials in this form across the state, and it decides what the holder may do without someone else’s supervision. How a other credential differs from the others.

When these credentials expire

Washington renews on the holder’s birthday, so these 1,621 expiry dates are spread right across the calendar rather than falling together. By year:

Continuing education

The Department records a continuing-education due date for 1,616 of these 1,621 credentials (99.7%). Where it is absent, that does not mean no hours are owed — it means this file does not carry the date.

How long these holders have been credentialled

The oldest Acupuncturist or Acupuncture and Eastern Medicine Practitioner credential still active in Washington was first issued in 1985. 177 of the 1,621 were issued in 2024 or later — 10.9% of the profession is that new.

The disciplinary flag

5 of the 1,621 active credentials of this type carry a disciplinary flag in the Department’s file — 0.3% — and 13 carry one marked pending.

This site publishes that count and no more: never who. The reason is not discretion, it is accuracy — the published file carries a yes/no flag and nothing else: no reason, no date, no case number. Naming someone on the strength of it would publish a suspicion rather than a fact. Every credential counted here is active. Why the line is drawn there.

Do not let the date pass

1,621 credentials of this type are active in Washington. Washington renews most of them on the holder’s birthday, every year or every two years, and continuing-education hours have to be done before that date — not after. Leave your details and we will tell you when yours is close, and pass your request for continuing-education hours to providers who teach for this credential.

We take no commission and we vouch for no training provider. We have no arrangement with any provider today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

Some of the 1,621 holders

Named as the Department of Health holds them, and limited to 140 rows — the full set is in the search, by number or by surname.

Narrower pages for this profession

• Acupuncturist or Acupuncture and Eastern Medicine Practitioner expiring in 2026 — 483

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