Regulator Perception of the Value of License Renewal/Recertification

Workforce Issues
Written By Irimar Waters
March 2023
Researcher: Element Market Research, Inc.
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Interviews with board administrators and regulators to understand perceptions about license renewal and recertification for practitioners.

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Executive Summary

HRRI protects the public through regulatory research and collaborative exchange with strategic partners to promote evidence-based healthcare regulation. The organization has identified a need for information and intelligence related to state healthcare board perceptions towards recertification and license renewal and its importance in providing quality healthcare to patients.

Objectives

  • Gauge the value that board administrators and regulators see in recertification and relicensing for practitioners.

  • Understand how important recertifications of practitioners is to board administrators and regulators and how often they believe practitioners across various types of therapeutic areas should be recertified.

  • Determine the extent to which board administrators and regulators believe the recertification process is arduous and perhaps unnecessary for practitioners in general or those with specific areas of focus.

  • Determine what, if anything, board administrators and regulators would change about the practitioner recertification and relicensing process to make it better.

  • Gauge the extent to which board administrators and regulators believe the public is familiar with practitioner recertifications and relicensing. Determine how important respondents think practitioner recertifications are to patients as they consider which practitioners they will see for their healthcare.

  • Determine whether board administrators and regulators believe recertifications are costly to practitioners and ultimately reduce the number of healthcare practitioners in the marketplace.

  • Gauge board administrators’ and regulators’ opinions about potential changes to the recertification process and the impact they believe it would have on healthcare.

Methodology

  • One-on-one phone interviews

  • Conducted between September 26 and October 18, 2024.

Additional Resources

Public Perception of the Value of License Renewal/Recertification

Practitioner Perception of the Value of License Renewal/Recertification

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