About
The credential tracker that should have shipped with your first license.
Free for every clinician. Track every state license, federal DEA, state controlled-substance registration, and continuing-education hour you hold; pick the renewal-alert cadence that fits your workflow; keep every supporting document in one encrypted vault.
What Larch does
Three things, well. The credential calendar, the document vault, and the renewal alerts. The whole product is free; the partner offers we surface (business banking, malpractice quotes, EHR comparisons) are how we make money — see the pricing page for the honest version of the business model.
Renewal calendar you control
We map every state license, federal DEA, state CSR, board certification, and continuing-education deadline you hold against the actual renewal rules of the issuing board. You pick the alert cadence per credential. Multi-state clinicians don't get blended deadlines.
Encrypted document vault
License PDFs, DEA renewal receipts, CSR cards, CE/CME completion certificates. Encrypted at rest, audit-logged on access, signed URLs only — never public links.
HIPAA-grade safeguards
Your credentials are sensitive. We're built on a HIPAA-eligible cloud, BAA available on request, every read and write is audit-logged, and your credential numbers never appear in our logs in plaintext.
Who Larch is for
- Nurse practitioners tracking state licenses, prescriptive authority, DEA, CSR, and contact hours across one state or fifteen.
- Physician assistants managing state licenses, federal DEA, state CSRs, and CME requirements across the states they practice in.
- Physicians — solo, telehealth, or group practice — who need a single place for medical licenses, federal DEAs, state CSRs, and CME.
Who built it
Jody Mitchell, MD — a physician who runs a multi-state collaborative practice and got tired of spreadsheets, sticky notes, and the slow leak of state-board portals. Every product decision — what to track, when to alert, what goes in the vault — comes from someone whose own license renewals are on the same calendar Larch ships.
Founder
Jody Mitchell, MD
Founder, Larch · Family medicine · Multi-state collaborative practice
I’m a board-certified family physician. I run a collaborative practice with nurse practitioners across multiple states, and I see patients in clinic and via telehealth in my own panel. The credential burden — state licenses, DEA, state CSRs, board MOC, CME by state category — has lived in spreadsheets and sticky notes my entire career.
I built Larch because I was the clinician who couldn’t keep track of his own credentials. Eight states, three boards, a DEA and CSR for each, and a spreadsheet that lied to me twice. The product is what I needed for myself first. It’s free because charging clinicians for the spreadsheet they should never have had to keep is the wrong business.
I’m the one shipping code, answering support, signing BAAs, and writing the FAQ. If you email jody@larchhealth.com, I’m the one who replies.
The category
Why credentials, why now.
There are roughly 1.1 million physicians, 400,000 nurse practitioners, and 160,000 physician assistants practicing in the United States. Telehealth has made multi-state practice the default for a growing slice of them — the average multi-state telehealth clinician now holds 4 to 8 state licenses, a federal DEA registration tied to each practice address, a separate state controlled-substance registration in each state that requires one, and continuing-education hours that vary state by state by category.
The category that should manage all of this is empty. Today it’s a spreadsheet, sticky notes, calendar reminders the clinician sets themselves, and the slow trickle of state-board email reminders that go to the address they used in 2014. Lapses are common. Loss of prescribing authority is the most costly outcome and the one that surprises clinicians most often.
Larch is the calendar and the vault for that whole stack. Free for clinicians, paid for by the partner products clinicians are already shopping for. NerdWallet’s model, White Coat Investor’s voice, applied to a category nobody has built for yet.
The business model
NerdWallet for clinicians.
The credential tracker is free because the credential tracker is the trust layer. Clinicians come to Larch for the calendar and the vault; over time we surface the partner products you’re already shopping for — business banking, business credit cards, malpractice quotes, payroll, EHR — with the FTC disclosures the law requires. If you sign up through us, the partner pays us a referral fee. You pay nothing extra.
We never charge clinicians for credential tracking. We never sell credential data. We never run banner ads. If a partner product fails our published rubric, we don’t list it.
Add your first credential.
About 30 seconds. Free forever. No credit card.