---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 60.8"
title: "45"
number: "60.8"
heading: "Reporting licensure actions taken by Boards of Medical Examiners."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/60.8"
---

# §60.8. Reporting licensure actions taken by Boards of Medical Examiners.

- (a) **What actions must be reported.** Each Board of Medical Examiners must report to the NPDB any action based on reasons relating to a physician's or dentist's professional competence or professional conduct:
  - (1) Which revokes or suspends (or otherwise restricts) a physician's or dentist's license,
  - (2) Which censures, reprimands, or places on probation a physician or dentist, or
  - (3) **Under which a physician's or dentist's license is surrendered.**
- (b) **Information that must be reported.** The Board must report the following information for each action:
  - (1) The physician's or dentist's name,
  - (2) The physician's or dentist's work address,
  - (3) The physician's or dentist's home address, if known,
  - (4) The physician's or dentist's Social Security number or Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN), if known, and if obtained in accordance with section 7 of the Privacy Act of 1974 ([5 U.S.C. 552a](/usc/5/552a.md) note),
  - (5) National Provider Identifier (NPI),
  - (6) The physician's or dentist's date of birth,
  - (7) Name of each professional school attended by the physician or dentist and year of graduation,
  - (8) For each professional license, the physician's or dentist's license number, the field of licensure and the name of the state or territory in which the license is held,
  - (9) The physician's or dentist's Drug Enforcement Administration registration number, if known,
  - (10) A description of the acts or omissions or other reasons for the action taken,
  - (11) A description of the Board action, the date the action was taken, its effective date and duration,
  - (12) Classification of the action in accordance with a reporting code adopted by the Secretary, and
  - (13) Other information as required by the Secretary from time to time after publication in the Federal Register and after an opportunity for public comment.
- (c) **Sanctions.** If, after notice of noncompliance and providing opportunity to correct noncompliance, the Secretary determines that a Board has failed to submit a report as required by this section, the Secretary will designate another qualified entity for the reporting of information under [§ 60.12](/cfr/45/60.12.md) of this part.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 11101-11152; 42 U.S.C. 1396r-2; 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7e

### Source

Source: 78 FR 20484, Apr. 5, 2013, unless otherwise noted.