Tip of the week: Know your state medical board’s criminal background check policy
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, November 20, 2008
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About half of state medical boards conduct criminal background checks on practitioners before deciding to issue a medical license, according to data from the Federation of State Medical Boards. If your medical staff is considering implementing these checks, it may want to find out if it will duplicate the information collected by the medical board.
To read more about criminal background checks, read the related article in the January issue of Briefings on Credentialing. It will be available on the Credentialing Resource Center (www.credentialingresourcecenter.com) in mid-December.
Click here to find out which state medical boards conduct criminal background checks.
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