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Grab your tea — Arizona brought the heat.

This week on Credentialing Chronicles, our Spillin’ Tea Across America tour lands in Arizona, where explosive population growth, provider shortages, and sweeping regulatory changes are reshaping credentialing, payer enrollment, and patient safety in real time.

Arizona is moving fast — sometimes faster than its safeguards.

In this episode, Shannen and Nyleen break down:
 🌵 A new Arizona law promising 60-day credentialing timelines and retroactive payment — and what that actually means on the ground
🧾 Why practices keep confusing credentialing, contracting, and activation — and how that confusion costs real money
💻 Medicaid and payer enrollment finally entering the digital age (wet signatures, RIP)
🧠 Behavioral health stepping into credentialing, quality, and compliance conversations
🚩 Medical board “transparency” that looks clean on the surface — until you know where to look

And yes, the tea gets darker. The episode also explores disturbing misconduct cases where providers remained licensed and practicing for years while investigations quietly lingered behind the scenes — reminding us that “active and clear” does not always equal safe.

Arizona shows us what happens when healthcare grows faster than oversight — and why credentialing teams become the last real line of defense.

Arizona Medical Board

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Resources Mentioned:

🔎 Verify Your Doctor’s Credentials

✔️ State-Specific Medical Board License Lookup:
Find your state’s board here:
https://www.fsmb.org/contact-a-state-medical-board/

✔️ Medicare Exclusions List (LEIE) – Check if your provider is federally excluded:
https://oig.hhs.gov/exclusions/exclusions_list.asp

✔️ Set Google Alerts on Your Doctor’s Name:
Create your own Google Alert here:
https://www.google.com/alerts

For Medical Staff Professional:

✔️ FSMB.org – Federation of State Medical Boards Physician Lookup:
https://www.fsmb.org/physician-license-lookup/

✔️ Hospital Websites:
Many hospitals have public directories listing credentialed medical staff. Look for a “Find a Doctor” or “Medical Staff Directory” page.

✔️ Set Google Alerts on Your Doctor’s Name:
Create your own Google Alert here:
https://www.google.com/alerts

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Verify your Nurses' Credentials:

https://www.nursys.com/

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