Iowa board revokes license of massage therapist - Iowa Capital Dispatch

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The Iowa Board of Massage Therapy has revoked the license of a woman whose falsified license application went undetected for almost a full year.

The board alleges that in April 2022, Jing Xie applied for an Iowa massage therapy license and indicated on her application that she’d never previously faced licensing discipline in another state. Four weeks later, the Iowa Board of Massage Therapy issued Xie a license.

In April 2023, the board received information from the National Practitioner Data Bank that suggested Xie had failed to inform the board of a criminal conviction and a voluntary license surrender in the state of Nevada.

According to board records, at some unspecified point in the past Xie was convicted of “attempted conspiracy solicitation” related to her practice of massage therapy in Kansas, and that she subsequently concealed that information in her application for licensure in Nevada. In September 2013, she agreed to surrender her Nevada license.

One year after learning this information, in April 2024, the Iowa board filed charges against Xie, accusing her of fraudulently procuring a license. Xie failed to appear for a recent hearing on the matter and last month, her Iowa license was revoked.

Board records give no indication as to where Xie practiced in Iowa but show that she currently lives in California.

In an unrelated case, last year the Iowa Board of Massage Therapy acknowledged it had unwittingly awarded a man with a history of sex crimes a license to practice massage therapy.