The OIG exclusion list is a list by the Office of Inspector General. Basically, this list excludes you from taking care of Medicare and Medicaid patients and getting reimbursement. If you are on this list, it is difficult to practice if your employer takes any type of insurance. There are definitely ways to get off the list, but it does require proactive action on your part, our legal team can help you.

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A peer assistance program is a program designed to help nurses or healthcare providers who use alcohol or controlled substances. It just depends on the facts of your case if it is necessary. Also, sometimes entering a peer assistance program can be a helpful way to protect your license.

If you are arrested for drunk driving, I suggest you not only contact a criminal attorney, but also an attorney like us who works with health care providers and their licenses. The sooner you do this, the easier it is for us to protect your license. There are things we can help you with proactively to help protect your license down the road.

If a matter is simply investigated, this information is confidential. However, if action is taken against your license, it does become public record and anyone can find out about it if they know how to access the public records.

Although this sounds like an easy answer to your problems especially if you no longer want to practice in that state, it can backfire. If you voluntarily surrender your license in one state, it may create more problems for you in the other state(s) where you are licensed.