Administrative Expungement
Tennessee now lets qualifying healthcare licensees petition their Board to remove older substance-use-related discipline from the public license verification page. RxLaw Group handled the first petition granted under the law, for a flat fee of $2,000.
Eleven years inside Tennessee healthcare regulation, including as deputy general counsel at the Department of Health.
Licensed in Tennessee, with federal practice before the DEA, FDA, and HHS nationwide.
The healthcare division of Litson PLLC, ready if a matter reaches court.
How we approach it
For a licensee who completed a Board-required treatment program years ago, rebuilt a practice, and has not had a single issue since, the public license profile can keep telling a story that stopped being true a long time ago. Credentialing companies pull that profile before advancing an enrollment, payors flag adverse history for extra review, and employers see the old order during a routine search and quietly move on, so a matter that closed a decade ago keeps shaping a career that has long since moved past it.
Tennessee changed that in 2025. Public Chapter 100, effective July 1, 2025, amended the Health Care Consumer Right-to-Know Act of 1998 to give licensees a formal way to petition their licensing Board to remove certain older substance-use-related disciplinary information from the public license verification website. A licensee becomes eligible 5 years after successfully completing a Board-approved peer assistance or treatment program, and the pathway reaches across every health-related licensing Board in Tennessee, from pharmacists and physicians to nurses, dentists, and the many other professions the state licenses. The petition clears the public-facing profile; the Board keeps its underlying records and its authority intact.
Matt Gibbs spent more than eleven years inside Tennessee healthcare regulation, including as deputy general counsel at the Department of Health, and he handled the first petition granted under the new law, when the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy voted unanimously on April 1, 2026, to remove prior actions from Dr. Kevin Hartman’s public profile. Boards are still developing how they apply the provision, and no outcome is ever guaranteed, but a petition built by someone who understands how these hearings run and how Board members weigh a request gives a licensee the best possible chance of being seen for who they are today.
What we handle
A flat-fee engagement that covers every step from eligibility review to the Board’s vote.
Confirming that your order, your program completion, and the time elapsed fit what the law allows before anything is filed.
Gathering the order, the program documentation, and the proof of sustained recovery the Board will want to see.
A petition written for the people who will decide it, in the form the Board is used to relying on.
Preparing you for the hearing and presenting the case for removal to the Board.
Pharmacy, medicine, nursing, dentistry, and the other health-related licensing Boards the law reaches.
Confirming the public profile is updated and advising on how to describe the history going forward.
Administrative expungement is a stand-alone engagement priced at a flat $2,000, covering eligibility review, the petition, and the Board presentation. It sits outside the monthly membership, so you do not need to be a member to petition, and there is no hourly meter running while the Board schedules its vote.
Common questions
The law reaches licensees of Tennessee’s health-related licensing Boards whose discipline was related to substance use and who successfully completed a Board-approved peer assistance or treatment program, as documented in the adverse action proceeding. Eligibility begins 5 years after that program was completed. Because the provision is new and the Boards are still developing how they apply it, the first step is a conversation about whether your order fits.
The petition asks the Board to remove the qualifying disciplinary information from the public-facing license verification website, which is the profile patients, employers, credentialing companies, and payors rely on. The Board keeps its underlying records and its authority, so the history does not disappear from the agency’s files, but it stops following you in the searches that shape a career.
A flat fee of $2,000, which covers eligibility review, assembling the record, drafting the petition, and presenting it to the Board. It is a stand-alone engagement outside the monthly membership, so there is no meter running while the Board schedules its vote, and no membership is required to petition.
Yes. On April 1, 2026, the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy voted unanimously to remove prior actions from the public profile of Dr. Kevin Hartman, a Nashville pharmacist who completed the terms of his order more than a decade earlier. RxLaw Group handled that petition, the first granted under the law. Every case turns on its own facts, and no outcome is guaranteed, but the pathway is open and it works.
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