anyone ever get their license back after revocation?

Again, this pertains ONLY to BILLING for YOUR services to a federal health care program. This has NOTHING to do with employment and NOTHING to do with any federal program hiring or employing an individual who is excluded from OIG. As a civilian house manager, you CANNOT bill a federal health program for your services...they are NOT covered. You are not a health service provider. Thus, no employer can bill for your services. have you ever heard of a civilian recovery house manager applying for a medicare/medicaid provider number????? I am sorry if you have received a wide range of opinions regarding this, but all I can say is that I have no doubt that the information I am giving you is 100% correct. The VA attorney obviously has no understanding of OIG exclusions, or the law pertaining to them. I do. It is part of my job.

Getting your license back after suspension is no picnic either. I have been fighting with the BON since the Spring of 2007 against allegations made by a former employer. It was a diversion charge. It was in a setting where I was the DON and allegedly, a tenant said some of her pills were missing. It occured shortly after I caught two of the "higher ups" in a sexually inappropriate situation. Irronically, in their depositions, both admitted to an affair, but said that what I alleged, didn't happen the way I said it did. When the male parties wife asked about the allegations made against me (she was the DON at the attached facility), she wouldn't hear anything about anything. To this day, I have been courtious enough to not let her know about the affair, which she claimed in her deposition never happened and doesn't believe it. I begged the investigator for the BON to have me drug tested, anything. He told me repeatedly "it's not necessary" or "no, we will tell you when or if we want that done." Since our BON only accepts drug testing from "their" place, I had no other recourse but to hire a very expensinve attorney and demand a hearing. The prosecutor for the BON had a not so pleasant history with one of my parents, but did not recuse himself, instead, wanted to make an example of me, adding charge after charge that he could think of. We were able to disprove all of the charges except the diversion, since there was no drug test to prove it didn't happen, because the BON wouldn't allow me to be tested. Also, the only evidence they had were depositions from people who admit they never saw it occur and have no idea what was or was not taken. To this day, noone has been able to give me a number of pills taken. My order actually says "several", because they can't even find a number. After many negotiations, and nearly $40,000 in lawyer fees, I agreed to a stipulation in which I denied the allegations, but would abide by a 30 day suspension and "play their games" for 1-5 years. Then the real problems started. The monitor refused to respond to my phone calls and certified letters. She finally responded when I got my DON and HR director involved. (Plus, I sent the top 3 BON members certified letters which included all of the correspondence I had with the monitor. On the 31st day, she responded to my DON and finally I was able to get the number of Firstlab to set up and account. For some reason, their system would not accept my account for 3 days. The lady at firstlab was very helpful and appologetic and with her effort and the IT department, were finally able to get me set up. The monitor said I could return to work as soon as this occured, but then found out she was on vacation for the next 5 days, and I again had to wait. When she returned from vacation, she then decided that I couldn't go back until I did a hair drug test, which I agreed to immediately. Now, this is on hold, because I still haven't received the chain of custody forms from firstlab. Thank goodness I have a proactive and supportive DON who has been emailing and/or calling the state daily to try to push this along. She believed in me so much, she actually took a day off of work and drove down to the state capital to testify on my behalf at my hearing. What I have learned from all of this is 1) think twice about being "nice" and trusting of people. I should have told my former boss' wife what I saw and filed sexual harassment charges. But, I didn't. 2) the BON does NOT work for nurses. They will find any road block possible to put in your way. Irronically, the ALJ who presided over my hearing, has been removed. The prosecutor has been moved out of the health area of the DRL, and the BON no long is able to hold their own hearings. They are now only held by the Dept of Justice. I wonder why that is? So, there is my frustrating past 2 years in a nutshell. Any suggestions?