What “Pre-Screened” Means on Provider Matching

What a clinician provides before applying

These are the minimum requirements during the marketplace launch. Nothing here is a medical record, and nothing here is a background check.

• A usable authenticated account email
• Phone number
• First and last name
• Provider type
• City, state and ZIP code
• Résumé
• Professional-license information when the selected role legally requires a license

What is checked, and what each check is

Before an application is accepted, Provider Matching runs or queues the checks it can actually run. Each is reported on its own, with its own source and date.

• Available state-license source checksAvailableWhere a source is available for the state and role.
• HHS-OIG LEIE searchAvailable
• Available state exclusion-list searchesAvailableCoverage varies by state.
• SAM.gov exclusion searchNot enabled yetAvailable when the approved connector is enabled.
• Individual source and date reportingAvailable

A name-only potential match is never a confirmed exclusion. Results are never combined into a single score, a clearance, or a verified-applicant badge — because a result from one source says nothing about another.

When a check has not finished

Some sources answer immediately and some do not. Where a result is not complete when an application is submitted, that source is labelled pending. Pending is not cleared, and it is never shown as cleared. An employer sees exactly which checks are complete, which are pending, which are done by hand and which are not available at all.

Pre-application screening is not onboarding

Everything above happens before an application. Medical information, titers, physicals, vaccinations and drug screens belong to post-offer onboarding and are never requested as ordinary pre-application profile requirements.

See the optional onboarding services and what each one currently is →