Off Topic - I’m on company travel and had to see a doctor last week. I contacted my insurance to find an ‘in network’ doctor, and they gave me several names. I went down a list of about 10 doctors, and none were seeing new patients. Finally found one but, is anyone else experiencing this? This is not Medicare, it’s private insurance, but these doctors are just not taking new patients. Is this the Obamacare fallout or a California thing ???
Unions.
Would be illegal nurses tending to illegal inhabitants. Welcome to California.
California and 12 other states (representing 40% of U.S. nurses) do not participate in the national database for disciplined nurses. Instead, they use the credentialing process as a revenue center when other states submit inquiries; by charging a hefty per-case inquiry fee. On the flip side, California refrains from submitting a similar fee to other state boards of nursing, thus failing to perform due diligence in the credentialing process.
24 States form a nursing compact in which the nurse’s license from his/her home State confers the ability to practice in each of the other. Rather than having to get a new license in each State, the nurse can work in any of the compact States based on their home State licensure.
What this also does is ensure that any sanction within any compact State is represented across the compact.