Professional licensing is a unique area of the law. It requires an attorney who is well-versed in licensing standards and understands the professions that require licensure, as well as the potential repercussions of various legal actions on your practice. Frances Cullen has provided legal representation in hundreds of cases in this field and is in a unique position to assist you in obtaining your license, defending against disciplinary actions, and avoiding future or collateral consequences of a criminal or administrative licensing action. She provides legal representations and defend in cases involving:

• Applications for licensure
• Administrative hearings and appeals of board disciplinary actions
• Licensing board complaints or investigations
• Adverse National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) reports
• Arrests and criminal convictions
• Hospital credentialing or peer review issues
• Medicare or Medicaid fraud or civil recoupment investigations and claims
• Reports to professional organizations or credentialing bodies
• Military credentialing hearings —US Veteran’s Administration (VA), Department of the Army, Department of Defense
• Exclusion by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) exclusion

Frances Cullen and her team has more than twenty years of experience providing health care professionals and businesses with preventative legal counsel and defense against Medicare and Medicaid violations, recoupment, lawsuits, fraud investigations, penalties, and criminal charges. Such cases may involve: