Credentialing Chronicles
"Credentialing Chronicles" is the go-to podcast uncovering the hidden truths and scandals in healthcare credentialing, licensing, and compliance. Hosted by industry experts, we dive into real cases, juicy controversies, and insider knowledge that every persons needs to know! 🎙️🔥
Episodes
🎙️ Hosts: Shannen & Nyleen
This episode is one of the most infuriating we’ve ever produced —
not because these stories are rare, but because they’re happening everywhere.
👩🏾🍼 Two Black mothers.
🏥 Two different hospitals.
⚠️ One devastating pattern: their pain dismissed, their labor ignored, and their safety treated as optional.
This wasn’t “unexpected progression.”
This was neglect.
🔍 Inside...
Hosted by: Shannen Reyes-Aguayo & Nyleen Flores
IG: @credentialingchronicles
🔥 SPICY TEA ALERT! Shannen and Nyleen have front-row seats to the most devastating policy threat to advanced practice nursing in decades!
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has proposed new rules that are set to eliminate the Grad PLUS Loan Program for future Nurse Practitioners (NPs), CRNAs, and Physician Assistants (PAs) starting...
Hosted by: Shannen Reyes-Aguayo & Nyleen Flores
IG: @credentialingchronicles
In this explosive episode of Credentialing Chronicles, Shannen and Nyleen uncover one of the most disturbing oversight failures in modern military medicine.
A Major OB-GYN secretly filmed women during pelvic exams at military hospitals in Hawaii and Texas. But the real scandal?
Early warnings were reportedly dismissed, concerns were...
Hosted by: Shannen Reyes-Aguayo & Nyleen Flores
IG: @shannensunfloweraguayo | @nyleenfloresfam
Forget the bad actors; this episode is a pure shot of appreciation for the human heart of medicine.
Shannon and Nyleen pull back the curtain to share truly moving stories of physicians who refuse to let bureaucracy or system failures get in the way of providing life-changing care. This is a tribute to everyone in healt...
Hosted by: Shannen Reyes-Aguayo & Nyleen Flores
IG: @shannensunfloweraguayo | @nyleenfloresfam
Is UnitedHealthcare having the worst year in corporate history? 📉
From the tragic assassination of CEO Brian Thompson to a DOJ antitrust investigation and the massive Change Healthcare cyberattack, the spotlight is burning hot. But today, we are looking past the headlines to the systematic business practices sparking ...
Hosted by: Shannen Reyes-Aguayo & Nyleen Flores
IG: @shannensunfloweraguayo | @nyleenfloresfam
🔥This is a BONUS UPDATE. It’s a full-blown class action. After their CEO's murder, United Healthcare executives allegedly misled their own investors by hiding critical policy changes. When the truth finally hit, the stock dropped 22.4% , wiping out $119 BILLION in a single day.
In our bonus short "...
Guest: Emily Brinkman, Esq. – Healthcare Attorney
Hosted by: Shannen Reyes-Aguayo & Nyleen Flores
IG: @shannensunfloweraguayo | @nyleenfloresfam
What happens when the system built to protect patients… looks the other way?
In this episode of Credentialing Chronicles, Shannen and Nyleen sit down with powerhouse healthcare attorney Emily Brinkman to dissect how dangerous doctors slip through the crac...
Hosted by: Shannen Reyes-Aguayo & Nyleen Flores
IG: @shannensunfloweraguayo | @nyleenfloresfam
Malpractice. Disfigurement... A surgeon's dead wife. A state of emergency.
This week on Credentialing Chronicles, Shannen & Nyleen investigate the horrifying case of Dr. Ben Brown, a Florida plastic surgeon whose practice was declared an "immediate, serious danger to the public."
From a patient's...
Hosted by: Shannen Reyes-Aguayo & Nyleen Flores
IG: @shannensunfloweraguayo | @nyleenfloresfam
When nursing home residents die after being left in filth and pain, 18 staff members end up charged—felony neglect, falsified records, obstruction, and more. The Attorney General calls it elder abuse; the facility calls it a misunderstanding. Now, with charges “nolle prossed for now,” the case isn’t closed—it’s just w...
Hosted by: Shannen Reyes-Aguayo & Nyleen Flores
IG: @shannensunfloweraguayo | @nyleenfloresfam
Paid to Prescribe?
Following the Sunshine Money: The $13.18 Billion Transparency Act
THE RECEIPTS ARE PUBLIC! Every year, billions of dollars flow from pharmaceutical and medical device companies to doctors. Is your physician one of them?
Shannen and Nyleen crack open and expose the massive, $13.18 BILLION network of ...
Hosted by: Shannen Reyes-Aguayo & Nyleen Flores
IG: @shannensunfloweraguayo | @nyleenfloresfam
Fraud. Defendants... Shell companies. Federal crackdown.
This week on Credentialing Chronicles, Shannen & Nyleen go full investigative mode on the largest healthcare fraud takedown in U.S. history — Operation Gold Rush.
From catheters moved like burgers on a grill to braces billed for amputees, we’re exposing how Me...
Hosted by: Shannen Reyes-Aguayo & Nyleen Flores
IG: @shannensunfloweraguayo | @nyleenfloresfam
When the FBI comes knocking… and the Board of Medicine hits snooze.
This week, Shannen and Nyleen dive into a gut-wrenching case out of Michigan that left them both sick to their stomachs. A family medicine doctor—trusted to care for entire families—was arrested in an FBI sting operation after allegedly trying to arran...
Everything’s bigger in Texas — including the credentialing drama!
☕ Grab your coffee—or sweet tea if you’re feelin’ southern—and get ready for a Texas-sized laugh with a side of truth.
#CredentialingChronicles #TeaSpillinMSPs #TexasEdition #MedicalStaffProfessionals
Resources Mentioned:
Open Payments
openpaymentsdata.cms.gov
Verify your Nurses' Credentials:
https://www.nursys.com/
🔎 Verify Your Doc...
In this quick 5-minute sip, our MSP from sweet Georgia pours a little southern-style tea about what really goes down behind the scenes in credentialing. From lost paperwork to last-minute provider meltdowns—nothing’s off the record (except, of course, the actual records 😉).
Grab your sweet tea, sit back, and get ready for a dose of MSP reality—Georgia edition.
#CredentialingChronicles #TeaSpillinMSPs #GeorgiaMSP #Medic...
North Dakota is in the house spillin' some tea with the ladies! Listen in to see what being an MSP is like in this beautiful state.
Resources Mentioned:
Open Payments
openpaymentsdata.cms.gov
Verify your Nurses' Credentials:
https://www.nursys.com/
🔎 Verify Your Doctor’s Credentials
✔️ State-Specific Medical Board License Lookup:
Find your state’s board here:
https://www.fsmb.org/co...
When a doctor asks you to find something he lost in the overnight resting room… you already know it’s about to get messy. 😳
In this quick Tea Spillin’ Session, Yesenia dishes the details on what really went down — and let’s just say, MSPs handle a whole lot more than credentialing. From unexpected “discoveries” to keeping your professionalism intact while holding back laughter (and judgment), this story proves MSPs ar...
In this 5-minute quick sip, Shannen and Nyleen sit down with Erica for a Tea Spillin’ Session you won’t forget. ☕
What’s the word of the day? “Bricks.”
Nope, not the kind you build a house with—
Short, sharp, and a little spicy—this one’s pure Credentialing Chronicles gold. 💅
#CredentialingChronicles #TeaSpillinSession #MSPTalk #NAMSS #Bricks
Resources Mentioned:
Open Payments
openpaymentsdata.cms.go...
Are Email addresses telling?! What's the craziest email address you have seen?!
Ashley lets us know on this tea spillin' session!
Resources Mentioned:
Open Payments
openpaymentsdata.cms.gov
Verify your Nurses' Credentials:
https://www.nursys.com/
🔎 Verify Your Doctor’s Credentials
✔️ State-Specific Medical Board License Lookup:
Find your state’s board here:
https://www.fsmb.org...
Grab your badges and your mugs—because the MSPs are spilling the JUICIEST tea from NAMSS! From wild conference confessions to “did-they-really-say-that?!” moments, Shannen and Nyleen are serving laughs, lessons, and a whole lotta credentialing realness.
On this session: Ann Klinger, Conference Committee Chair for NAMSS.
#CredentialingChronicles #NAMSS2025 #SpillinTea #MedicalStaffProfessionals
Resources ...
Ever opened a credentialing file and had to close it right back because of the doctor’s headshot? 😅
In this Tea Spillin’ Session, Allison joins Shannen and Nyleen to laugh (and cringe) through the unforgettable world of “professional” headshots — from glamour shots gone wrong to selfies that should’ve stayed in the camera roll. 📸
Because sometimes, before the verification even starts, the photo says everything. MSPs, ...
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