844 IAC 2.2-2-8 sets Indiana’s physician assistant application fee at 00, non-refundable and non-transferable, with a temporary permit available for an additional 0.
What the permit is for
One thing: bridging the gap between a confirmed start date and a license that has not issued yet. If the application is complete and the board is simply working through its queue, 0 buys the ability to start on time.
When it is not worth buying
If the application is incomplete, a temporary permit does not fix it — the same missing transcript or unfiled collaboration agreement blocks both. Buying a permit to accelerate a file that is not ready accelerates nothing.
If there is no start date pressure, it is 0 for convenience you do not need. The permanent license is coming either way.
And it is a bridge, not a strategy. Temporary permits carry their own expiry and their own conditions, and a practice built on renewing one is a practice with a problem.
The non-refundable clause
Worth reading twice: fees in Indiana are non-refundable and non-transferable. An application filed against the wrong details, or abandoned, is money gone. That is an argument for getting the file right before submitting rather than submitting early to start the clock.
Compact position
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