Yes, but I would clarify with both the position in IL and the position in NY what is needed. I wouldn't pay for 2 separate DEAs unless I had to use both now. If you are a resident, find out from your program 1. if you need to get your own DEA (my residency program did not require it, and let us use the institutional DEA; since they wouldn't reimburse us for the cost, no one got their own until after residency or when they moonlighted) and 2. if they will pay for it if it is required.
If one of these licenses is for a future job (i.e. not residency), usually your employer will pay for the costs; ask them before spending $$$. And you can do like cabinbuilder does and transfer the practice location when you move.
From the DEA website:
Locum Tenens: Three commenters raised the issue of multiple registrations for practitioners who serve as locum tenens practitioners in multiple States. They stated that adding separate DEA registrations for each of the States would be confusing and costly.
DEA Response: The revision of the regulation will not affect DEA's approach on locum tenens practitioners. DEA will be addressing policies regarding locum tenens practitioners in other documents to be published in the Federal Register.
This information is addressed in more detail by DEA in the Final Rule, Clarification of Registration Requirements for Individual Practitioners, which DEA published in the Federal Register on December 1, 2006.
Please be aware that practitioners who wish to administer, dispense, or prescribe controlled substances in multiple states have the following options regarding a DEA registration:
1.Practitioners will need to obtain a separate DEA registration in each state where they plan to administer, dispense, or prescribe controlled substances.
2.If the practitioners will be working solely in a hospital/clinic setting, they may use the hospital's DEA registration instead of registering independently with DEA if the hospital agrees and the situation warrants. 21 C.F.R. § 1301.22(c).
3.
Alternately, under 21 C.F.R. § 1301.51, practitioners may transfer their existing DEA registration from one state to another as needed by contacting DEA's Registration and Program Support Section at 1-800-882-9539 or request the change online at www.DEAdiversion.usdoj.gov. DEA will investigate each modification of registration as if it was a new application. DEA will issue a new DEA certificate with the appropriate changes if DEA approves the modification.
4.DEA has provided a limited exception to this requirement in that practitioners who register at one location in a state, but practice at other locations within the same state, are not required to register with DEA at any other location in that state at which they only prescribe controlled substances. 21 CFR § 1301.12(b)(3).
See section 3: this is what I do. Every time I change a site (I practice in 4 states) I go online and do an address change request, there is no fee involved to to this. If I'm cleared then a new DEA license with the same number but different address is mailed to me.
