Texas Board Actions (2021-2023)
Texas medical-board action counts from the TMB public annual report (2023). Rates use this board's own licensee denominator (not NPPES). FSMB national rollups are cited only for scale.
Last updated: May 2026
Texas's disciplinary counts come from the TMB annual report published at tmb.state.tx.us: 344 actions across 334 cases in 2023, against 77,000 active MD/DO licensees (4.47 per 1,000).
The Texas Medical Board annual report is the sole Texas medical-licensure disciplinary publisher in this corpus; TMB covers MDs and DOs licensed in Texas and does not fold osteopathic discipline into a separate board file. Confirm a Texas license on the TMB public license lookup before treating any aggregate row as a person-level finding.
Texas's 2023 TMB action mix is led by probation (94, 27%), then voluntary surrender (68), then license suspension (58) - 220 of 344 actions (64% in the top 3). The report lists 334 distinct cases for those 344 actions (0.97 cases per action) against 77,000 MD/DO licensees - peer rates on their own denominators: Florida 6.40; California 3.84.
Where this state board sits among covered peers
Texas ranks 2nd of 10 covered state boards by actions per 1,000 licensees (4.47 in 2023), with probation the largest share at 27% of board actions. In the NPPES directory, licensed vocational nurse is the most over-indexed specialty at 6.81× the national share (7,567 providers).
- 4.47
- actions / 1,000 licensees (2023)
- 2nd
- of 10 covered boards by rate
- 344
- board actions in 2023
- 14.3%
- of covered-state action volume
This comparison uses the 2023 report only; 2022 rows do not carry the same action-type coverage, so no year-over-year claim is made.
Texas's 4.47 actions / 1,000 is above the covered-board median of 3.06; the next higher board is Florida at 6.40, the next lower is California at 3.84. In 2023, probation accounted for 94 of 344Texas board actions (27%).
What the TMB report categorizes
Texas's 2023 TMB report publishes 6 action categories (Probation, Voluntary surrender, License suspension, Practice restriction, Public reprimand, License revocation). Not broken out on this TMB report: monetary fine (see Florida's 2023 breakout). Rare in this corpus: public reprimand.
Distinguishing category on this page: Public reprimand .
Texas at a glance - 2023
Source: TMB Annual Report. Licensee counts reflect active MD/DO licenses on record at year-end.
Texas board actions by type (2023)
Share of this state's formal board actions - not a national mix
- Probation
Probation
94 actions
- Voluntary surrender
Voluntary surrender
68 actions
- suspension
License suspension
58 actions
- Practice restriction
Practice restriction
51 actions
- Public reprimand
Public reprimand
44 actions
- revocation 29
License revocation
29 actions
What this shows Probation leads at 94 actions (27% of 344 total), ahead of voluntary surrender.
Texas among nearby covered boards
Ranked by actions per 1,000 licensees among the 10 boards with ingested annual-report counts. Showing boards immediately around Texas (not the full covered list) so each state page carries a different peer window. Texas sits at 2nd.
| # | State board | Actions / 1k | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florida | 6.40 | 480 |
| 2 | Texasthis page | 4.47 | 344 |
| 3 | California | 3.84 | 576 |
| 4 | Ohio | 3.29 | 158 |
Texas NPPES mix: Licensed Vocational Nurse
Among NPPES providers in Texas, Licensed Vocational Nurse is the most over-indexed specialty at 6.81× the national share (7,567 providers) ; next are Speech-Language Assistant (4.53×, 3,460), Pharmacy Technician (3.38×, 2,402), Professional Counselor (2.54×, 18,277). Most under-indexed: Case Manager/Care Coordinator at 0.23× . This is directory composition, not a board-action rate.
- Licensed Vocational Nurse - 7,567 providers (6.81× national share)
- Speech-Language Assistant - 3,460 providers (4.53× national share)
- Pharmacy Technician - 2,402 providers (3.38× national share)
- Professional Counselor - 18,277 providers (2.54× national share)
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner - 2,833 providers (1.95× national share)
Texas year-over-year trend
| Year | Total actions | Licensees | Actions per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 344 | 77,000 | 4.47 |
| 2022 | 164 | 75,000 | 2.19 |
| 2021 | 69 | 74,000 | 0.93 |
Action-count totals across all canonical action types per year for Texas. Rate-per-1,000 normalizes for licensee population.
Texas 2023 - breakdown by action type
| Action type | Actions |
|---|---|
| Probation | 94 |
| Voluntary surrender | 68 |
| License suspension | 58 |
| Practice restriction | 51 |
| Public reprimand | 44 |
| License revocation | 29 |
Prior-year totals are in the trend table above; only the latest report year is expanded by action type.
Texas's 344 board actions in 2023 are 5.3% of the FSMB 2023 national action volume (6,444). Full national mix: state board action trends.
Aggregate Texas counts only, not an individual determination. Verify a clinician via the TMB public record or methodology for category definitions (Probation, Voluntary surrender, License suspension, Practice restriction, Public reprimand, License revocation).
Source: TMB - State Medical Board Annual Report Texas Medical Board Disciplinary Action Statistics, 2023 · 2023 Aggregate counts only. To verify any individual provider's current license status, query the state board's public license lookup directly.
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Texas counts from TMB (2023); national context from FSMB U.S. Medical Regulatory Trends. Aggregate only - methodology · board lookup.