653—8.5 (147,148,272C) Fees for verification of physician licensure and certification of examination scores.
	 8.5(1) Verification fees.
	  a.   	 Physicians shall use VeriDoc to secure a certified statement that verifies Iowa licensure status for any state medical board that accepts VeriDoc. VeriDoc is accessible at http://www.veridoc.org/. The fee for this service is $40.
	  b.   	 A physician who needs a certified statement that verifies Iowa licensure status for a state medical board that does not accept verification from VeriDoc shall make a written request for a certified statement with payment of a $40 verification fee to the Iowa Board of Medicine. The Iowa board shall provide a certified statement that verifies Iowa licensure status to the nonaccepting state medical board.
	  c.   	 The fee for verification of Iowa licensure status that does not require a certified statement or letter is $15.
	  d.   	 The board shall provide an automated telephone verification service whereby callers can input the licensee’s license number or social security number and receive verbally the licensee’s current licensure status. There is no fee for this service.
The board shall provide a license number for an individual caller to use in the automated telephone verification service. Businesses that utilize verifications will be required to utilize the automated telephone verification service or the alternative outlined in 8.5(1)“c.”
	 8.5(2) Fees for certification of physician examination scores. Upon request and payment of the designated fee, the board may provide certification of scores of an examination given by the board in Iowa as permitted under Iowa Code section 147.21 and 653—paragraph 2.13(2)“f.” The scores available from the board are those from examinees who took the state-constructed examination.
	  a.   	 Certified statement of grades attained by examination, $45.
	  b.   	 Certified statement of grades attained by examination including examination history or additional documentation, $55.