What are Dr. Annette Bosworth's medical credentials and licensing history?

1. Academic and clinical credentials: medical degree and specialty

Public professional profiles and directory listings consistently report that Bosworth received her medical degree from the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine and that her training and practice identify her as an internist/doctor of internal medicine, with more than two decades in practice ^{[1] [2] [3] [7]}.

2. Early practice and academic roles as reported

Biographical materials and academic listings portray Bosworth as having worked in clinical and teaching roles—affiliations and past positions are described in profile snippets that list hospital work and university faculty appointments, though those are drawn from self-reported or third‑party profile pages rather than formal university press releases in the supplied record ^{[8] [7]}.

3. Criminal convictions that triggered regulatory scrutiny

Bosworth was convicted in May 2015 on multiple felony counts related to filing false candidate nominating petitions and perjury stemming from her 2014 South Dakota U.S. Senate campaign; contemporary reporting and later administrative findings specify the May 27, 2015 conviction date and list six felony counts ^{[6] [4] [9]}. Those convictions became the central fact driving regulatory and federal administrative responses ^[6].

4. State medical license revocation by South Dakota board

Following the felony convictions, the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners voted unanimously to revoke Bosworth’s medical license, a decision reported in September 2015 and framed by the board as necessary to protect public confidence because the convictions raised questions about honesty and trustworthiness ^{[4] [5]}. Board staff had recommended revocation after sentencing, and the board adopted that recommendation ^[4].

5. Federal Medicare action and preclusion list

The Department of Health and Human Services administrative decision documented that Bosworth had once been enrolled in Medicare but was placed on the Medicare Preclusion List; HHS concluded she should remain precluded for ten years because of her felony convictions that CMS reasonably determined were detrimental to Medicare’s interests ^[6]. The HHS decision emphasizes CMS’s reliance on provider honesty for billing and program integrity ^[6].

6. Partial legal developments and contested narratives

Some later accounts assert the South Dakota Supreme Court vacated certain perjury convictions in 2017 while upholding other convictions for filing false petitions; that nuance appears in post‑conviction summaries cited in biographical pieces, though the supplied materials do not include the court opinion itself for independent verification here ^[10]. Opinion pieces and defenders have argued the felony prosecutions and board actions were politically motivated or disproportionate, a viewpoint advanced in a US News opinion column asserting the medical board and attorney general’s offices had prior conflicts with Bosworth ^[11]. Those alternative narratives do not negate the recorded convictions and ensuing regulatory steps documented by court and board action ^{[4] [6]}.

7. Current practice listings vs. licensure status — limits of public profiles

Commercial doctor‑directory pages and patient‑facing profiles list Bosworth as an internist and associate her with Sanford USD Medical Center or practice locations in Tampa, Florida, but those listings are not definitive proof of an active medical license or current admitting privileges; Healthgrades, Healthline/FindCare, Sharecare and similar sites note education and specialties but explicitly caution they do not independently verify licensure status in every listing ^{[1] [3] [12]}. The supplied record does not include a contemporaneous state licensing database printout confirming active licensure after the 2015 revocation and subsequent legal actions, so definitive current licensure cannot be asserted from these sources ^{[4] [6]}.

Conclusion: The public record in the provided reporting establishes that Dr. Annette Bosworth is medically trained as an internist (University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine) and practiced as a primary care/internal medicine physician, but her South Dakota medical license was revoked following felony convictions in 2015 and she was placed on CMS’s Medicare Preclusion List for ten years; later claims of partial vacatur and defenses alleging political motives exist in the record but do not erase the documented regulatory and administrative actions cited above ^{[1] [2] [4] [6] [10] [11]}.