Medical Licensing Blog
Healthcare organizations and insurance companies depend on credentialing to verify each care provider’s competency levels, information and skills. This process is essential for protecting patients and upholding a high standard of care. Understanding the provider credentialing process flow can be helpful for providers. Here, we’ll look at the steps required in the credentialing process, the…
Read More
Hospital credentialing errors are a common cause of costly onboarding delays that prevent providers from seeing patients in a timely fashion. After you have worked hard to recruit the best provider you could find, to meet a dire need at your facility, imagine the frustration of this provider being delayed by a credentialing error. Avoid…
Read More
Now more than ever before, it is important for hospitals and hospital systems to streamline their provider credentialing process to help ease staffing shortages. Many credentialing related hurdles such as inefficient processes, mistakes that increase costs and lengthy onboarding procedures, can impede the timely hiring of physicians. However, healthcare organizations that streamline these processes can…
Read More
If more than ten years have gone by since you passed an examination such as the United States Medical Licensing Examination® (USMLE®) or an American Board Exam, you may be required to take an American Board certification or the Special Purpose Examination (SPEX). If you are unsure about anything regarding medical license or exam expiration…
Read More
State medical boards regulate the activities of more than one million health care professionals in the United States. Although their duties include licensing and ongoing registration, their ultimate goal is to protect the public from harm and enhance the quality of medical practice. State medical boards also have the responsibility of determining when a physician’s…
Read More
At MLG, we help busy physicians obtain multiple types of medical licenses, including emergency licensure. In this reference guide, we focus on permanent medical licensure, temporary licensure and locum tenens licensure. Each licensure type has its own unique considerations to bear in mind. Your dedicated licensing specialist at MLG can advise you on the best…
Read More
After receiving your medical license, the next step in your journey to seeing patients is hospital credentialing. Over the past few decades, hospital credentialing has evolved into a tedious, arduous process that requires perfect attention to detail. In addition to being laborious, hospital credentialing can be a lengthy process, because it is common for credentialing…
Read More
Physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners navigating their state’s controlled substance registration process are faced with lengthy application requirements. As medical licensing professionals, we are here to help our clients complete these applications and answer any questions that may arise regarding controlled substance licenses. Application requirements vary by state, but we have identified several common…
Read More
The Medical Licensure Group (MLG) offers several services to help healthcare systems track and verify their physicians’ licenses and credentials. Monitoring physician licenses for new information that may prevent a physician from practicing is an essential element of maintaining compliance with federal and state regulations, and especially keeping patients safe. The best way to ensure…
Read More
Understanding eligibility requirements for the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (IMLC) can be difficult. It is also extremely important to determine eligibility before wasting considerable time, effort and money on an application. Even though the process of obtaining an IMLC license is not easy, the rewards can be worthwhile for physicians practicing or seeing patients virtually…
Read More