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Board pauses online fictitious‑name permit form after high denial rate; licensing reports median turnaround of about 37 days for complete applications
Summary
Staff reverted the online fictitious‑name permit (FNP) application to a paper form because the shared platform's entity‑type logic was producing many denials; licensing reported 16,272 active licenses, 256 pending physician applications and proposed embedding an attestation form into the Breeze application to reduce delays.
Licensing staff told the board Feb. 13 that the board currently has 16,272 active osteopathic physician and surgeon licenses, 1,194 postgraduate training licenses and 1,082 fictitious‑name permits. Staff reported 256 pending physician and surgeon applications, including 18 requests for expedited review.
Staff described two operational items of note. First, the board temporarily deactivated the online fictitious‑name permit (FNP) application after the Breeze platform produced a high denial rate. Licensing and administrative staff concluded that the shared application template included a long drop‑down of entity types (many irrelevant to osteopathic applicants) and logical branching that caused applicants to select inconsistent entity types and therefore receive denials that could not be cured in the platform. The board reverted the FNP application to a paper submission with a check while staff and the vendor evaluate whether the template can be narrowed and supplemented with improved guidance or an instructional video.
Second, licensing staff said the average processing interval for applications that include all required documents is approximately 37 days, with longer timelines when board staff must wait for applicant‑supplied materials. Staff asked to incorporate the OMB‑26 attestation and release of information into the online Breeze workflow to reduce delays and indicated Breeze developers have said that change is feasible.
Board members asked staff to continue producing an outreach video to help new graduates gather required documents and to work with schools so students can better time application filing and avoid avoidable delays.
Staff emphasized that a stabilized year‑to‑year comparison of application volumes will be possible after Breeze conversion stabilizes; earlier fiscal periods included mass manual entry of paper applications that distort direct comparisons.
