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| Teleradiology & Telemedicine Licensing (Licenses) |
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Our experience is unmatched in the field of Teleradiology and Telemedicine. Radiologist and Locum Tenens Specialist have utilized our services to obtain licenses in all 50 States. It is not uncommon for MedLicense.com to provide nationwide licensure services to Teleradiologist setting up Teleradiology practices to service all 50 States. Unfortunately there is not a National Teleradiology License. Most States require that the physician have a license in each State where the patients/physical care is being given. Some States are now offering special Telemedicine Licenses and Teleradiology Licenses. Telemedicine and Teleradiology is a new field which the Medic al Boards are now addressing. This combined with the governmental and legal liability of treating patients whom are not physically present in your State has opened the door for considerable problems if a Board Complaint or Malpractice Suit is filed against the Physician. Physician's practicing Telemedicine and Teleradiology need to protect themselves by obtaining a Full Medical License or Telemedicine License / Teleradiology license in each State where they will be accepting Telemedicine Patients and Teleradiology Contracts. The cost is minimal compared to the risk of not being licensed. MedLicense.com is experienced and capable to handling this scale of licensure. MedLicense.com can make an impossible process manageable and feasible. To set up your packet with MedLicense.com proceed to our purchase section. |
| 07/20/10 Massachusetts Medical License issued within 40 days |
| Today we were notified that our latest physician applying to the State of Massachusetts was issued his license in just under 40 days. His application was filed with the Massachusetts Medical Board on 06/11/10. We expedited the process and guided our client to a successful completion of one of the most arduous licensure processes in the USA. |
| 06/17/10 Missouri Medical Board issues our First License based on Puerto Rico Medical Board Examination |
| The Missouri Medical Board issued our first license to a Physician who took the Puerto Rico Medical Examination. Missouri is the only Medical Board which still sponsors the Puerto Rico Medical Examination. We currently have a number of pending applications in Missouri from our clients based in Puerto Rico. This development will be welcomed news to them as the difficult process of obtaining Puerto Rico based verifications is completed on their behalf |
| 05/05/10 Massachusetts Medical License issued in 90 days |
| We received notice today that a client whose application was submitted at the end of February was issued in Massachusetts. Massachusetts typically runs between 3 to 6 months. The reasons for this are two fold. They verify malpractice coverage for the past 10 years and the Massachusetts Medical Board does not like to communicate. Without regular communication the process cannot work smoothly. Because of this we have put into place a different procedure which is proven to be effective in moving the licenses through in a more expedited manner. |
| 04/22/10 Florida Medical License issued in 60 days |
| Today we received notice that one of our Military Physicians received his Florida Medical License. The application was submitted on 3/03/10. The license was issued on 4/22/10. |
| 04/20/10 Medical Board of California - Licensure Time |
| The Medical Board of California has reduce the average time it takes to review an application from 6 months (last Summer) to 3 months (average this Spring). With the reduction in the review time comes a reduction in the licensure times. Many different factors influence the speed at which a medical license application is processed. With California so much is dependent upon the Medical Board Analyst who is assigned to the file. |
| 04/20/10 New Jersey Medical License issued in 54 Days |
| MedLicense.com just received notice that another license by the New Jersey Medical Board was issued in under 60 days. The application was submitted to the Board on 2/26/2010. The Physician authorized MedLicense.com to expedite the process at the start. The license was issued to the Physician today, 4/20/10. |
| 03/17/10 Recent State Medical Board Changes |
| Many State Medical Boards are moving to an online Application Status Report System. State Medical Boards which have moved to this type of online system include California, Oregon, Texas, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. All Application Status Report Systems are not equal. The ones which provide the most detail and are updated on a weekly basis are the best. In our opinion the Medical Boards with the Best System are the States of Oregon and Oklahoma. Both are detailed in nature and updated weekly. Whereas other Board's systems lack details or timely updates. North Carolina and Wisconsin can go for weeks and weeks without being updated thus requiring a phone call to the Medical Boards. Whereas California's lacks vital details which end up requiring a follow up call to the Medical Board to find out what is still missing. This defeats the general purpose of the system. We hope that more Medical Boards will move to a Oregon or Oklahoma Status Report System which will allow for a faster, more efficient process. |
| 08/13/09 Government Run Health Care - How will it impact Licensing? |
| The best indicator of the future is the past. Know the past and you have a window in the future. The same is true for Government Run Health Care and Licensure. Because the USA is a Republic with the States having Sovereignty over their borders, there will never be a national license program which replaces the State Medical Board's process. Each Board will continue to "reinvent" the wheel. What we will see is an additional permit/license which will be added to the already exhaustive list of permits/licenses which Physicians need to practice. These include but are not limited to: State Medical Licenses, State CSR/CDS Permits, NPI #, DEA #, Medicaid/Medicare #'s. We expect to see a process similar to the Medicare Registration Process with multiple 40+ page applications, addendums, and billing setups for any new Federal Program. Included in this will be practice agreements which the Physician must agree to abide by in essence allowing the Federal Govt' to dictate to them what services they can offer and to whom. Govt' never goes from complex to simple. It always grows from simple to complex. |
| 08/10/09 Puerto Rico Medical Board - loses 80% of verifications for pending applicant |
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MedLicense.com has decided to no longer accept contracts for the licensure process for the Territory of Puerto Rico. On a current client, the physician had to fly to Puerto Rico because the Medical Board is not accepting calls or responding to emails to check the status of his application. The Board informed him that they were in receipt of only 2 verifications of the 12 which had been sent to them. We provided confirmation and delivery receipt to the client which he then provided to the Representative at the Puerto Rico Medical Board. The response... " We don't have them ". Until the PR Medical Board comes under new management or changes their mail system, we are not going to accept new contracts for Puerto Rico Licensure services. |
| 08/10/09 Medical Board of California - Furloughs due to budget deficits |
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Physicians now have a 4 months wait for the Medical Board of California to review applications once submitted to the Board. This means that the licensure process for California will now run 4 to 8 months depending on the physician, "yes" answers to the application, and the educational back ground of the physician. There is nothing that can be done to expedite the process for California. When the Medical Board is the issue all you can do is work within the constraints presented. The key to California is to make sure that everything is delivered a month or less before the Board reviews the application. Verifications sent too far in advance of the application being reviewed can be lost by the Medical Board of California which results in delays. It is all about timing. As of this Summer, California is required to have a mandatory Furlough 3 Fridays a month. This has further added to more delays. |
| 05/01/09 SPEX Study Help - From a Physician who Passed the SPEX |
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Are you scheduled to take the SPEX Examination and need help
studying for it? One of our clients took and passed it
recently. He informed us that he used the 1400 page text book by
McGraw, Hill, Lang - "Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment" (
Amazon,.com
http://www.amazon.com/CURRENT-Medical-Diagnosis-Treatment-LANGE/dp/0071591249
) The text book is published on a yearly basis. The SPEX test is 75% Internal/General Medicine with the rest touching on Ob/Gyn, Psychiatry (Drug Treatment), Dermatology, & Surgery. Our client informed us that the SPEX test is almost a carbon copy of the NBME Part 3 Examination. |