Medical Assistant Certification

Washington State holds 20,392 active credentials of this type — 3.7% 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 Medical Assistant Certification is a Certification — a credential the state grants against a defined standard. It is what Washington uses where the work is real and regulated but typically carried out under someone else’s direction rather than independently.

That word is not a formality. Washington issues 145,796 active credentials in this form across the state, and it decides what the holder may do without someone else’s supervision. How a certification differs from the others.

When these credentials expire

Washington renews on the holder’s birthday, so these 20,392 expiry dates are spread right across the calendar rather than falling together. By year:

How long these holders have been credentialled

The oldest Medical Assistant Certification credential still active in Washington was first issued in 2013. 4,330 of the 20,392 were issued in 2024 or later — 21.2% of the profession is that new.

The disciplinary flag

29 of the 20,392 active credentials of this type carry a disciplinary flag in the Department’s file — 0.1% — and 23 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

20,392 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 20,392 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

• Medical Assistant Certification expiring in 2026 — 3,287
• Medical Assistant Certification expiring in 2027 — 9,157
• Medical Assistant Certification expiring in 2028 — 7,946
• Medical Assistant Certification first issued in 2013 — 4,686
• Medical Assistant Certification first issued in 2014 — 1,312
• Medical Assistant Certification first issued in 2015 — 1,232
• Medical Assistant Certification first issued in 2016 — 1,135
• Medical Assistant Certification first issued in 2017 — 964
• Medical Assistant Certification first issued in 2018 — 1,050
• Medical Assistant Certification first issued in 2019 — 928
• Medical Assistant Certification first issued in 2020 — 891
• Medical Assistant Certification first issued in 2021 — 1,224
• Medical Assistant Certification first issued in 2022 — 1,297
• Medical Assistant Certification first issued in 2023 — 1,343
• Medical Assistant Certification first issued in 2024 — 1,366
• Medical Assistant Certification first issued in 2025 — 1,721
• Medical Assistant Certification first issued in 2026 — 1,243

Credentials of a similar size

• Registered Nurse License 106,983
• Nursing Assistant Certification 59,078
• Physician And Surgeon License 31,099
• Nursing Assistant Registration 25,386
• Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner License 18,863
• Dental Assistant Registration 17,158
• Emergency Medical Technician Certification 14,905
• Medical Assistant Phlebotomist Certification 14,526
• Mental Health Counselor License 12,609
• Counselor Agency Affiliated Registration 12,416
• Pharmacist License 11,304
• Massage Therapist License 10,993
• Pharmacy Assistant License 10,772

Neighbours by size, not a ranking: this list slides with the profession you are on, so every one of the 98 pages is reachable from the others rather than only the largest few. All of them.