Atlanta Healthcare Law Attorney

I'm Frances Cullen. As a professional licensing attorney, we've received substantial number of inquiries as to whether an individual must report a licensing board action in one state to another state and whether out of state licensing actions may affect one's license in the State of Georgia. We've also respond to a substantial number of questions from licensees who were sanctioned in another state but who have failed to report that sanction to other licensing boards, and are faced with potential repercussions.

Answer to these questions are individualized to each licensees' facts and to the states involved, and the consequences to one's license in the state of Georgia or to other states can be severe. Board actions in other states often prompt what we call "reciprocal action" in other states and a failure to report a board action in one state to another can be another disciplinary action and result in additional charges that may be even more severe than the underlying issue. These are serious issues that could ultimately affect your license and your ability to practice your profession.

I therefore urge you to seek legal counsel familiar with these issues to provide you with solid advice that how and when and what potential defenses you might have in reporting these types and in dealing with these types of legal actions.

At Levy Pruett Cullen, we have years of experience in addressing these issues. In over 25 years of practice and 20 years in defense practice, we have significant experience with licensees who have faced licensing actions in other states, have reported or have reciprocal action pending and we can guide you through this process to best resolve these issues. 

As a professional licensing attorney I am often asked what to do about reporting a board action to another state or if you fail to report an action to another state. Each case is individual in making a decision as to how to proceed - on these kinds of issues it's very important to take the right steps if you have an action pending in a state that may have to be reported to other states or if you need to remedy the reporting of a past action that was not reported to another state.

Most states have laws or rules that require reporting of an action on one state to another state within 30 days. But these regulations vary, and have to be looked at individually. Moreover there could be penalties and severe consequences if you fail to report and then try to catch up. It is really best to have an attorney, who is familiar with these issues, look at this for you and do an assessment of what your case is; what needs to be reported; and how and when it should be reported.

You should also be aware that if you have multiple licenses and you have a case pending against you that there will be consequences in the other states that could result in what's called the reciprocal allocation or mirroring of the action that happened in the state where the issue is proceeding.

At our firm we are familiar with these kinds of actions. We have worked with numerous professionals to report actions that are imposed by a state licensing board to other states and to remedy the failure to report in other states. We are familiar with most of the other state laws, rules, and have worked to remedy those kinds of issues. If you need professional advice on this type of reporting, call an Atlanta healthcare attorney at Frances Cullen P.C. and seek legal advice if this is an issue that you're facing.