WE’RE FIGHTING TO END MOC
It’s time to end maintenance of certification. Unnecessary time requirements and financial burdens are robbing patients of their time with physicians.
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PPA helped fund the investigation and filing of lawsuits against ABIM, ABR, and ABPN challenging MOC. We continue to need assistance raising the necessary funds to continue the litigation, including discovery and other pre-trial preparation.
It’s Time to End MOC
Please watch this special message from board member Dr. Westby Fisher regarding our fight to end maintenance of certification.
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These resources offer insight into our ongoing investigation.
History of MOC
Medical specialty certification in the United States—a false idol?
Boarded to Death
Why Maintenance of Certification Is Bad for Doctors and Patients.
The ABIM Foundation
Choosing Wisely®, and the $2.3 Million Condominium.
Offshore Accounts
ABIM Foundation Off-shores $6.5 Million to the Cayman Islands
MOC Time Investment
No difference in care quality or safety in physicians with time-limited vs. time-unlimited board certification.
ABIM Lobbying Efforts
ABIM fails to disclose lobbying efforts to the public and the IRS.
MOC Background
The problem: how does one define physician excellence?
MOC Raising Costs
Commentary: How These Useless Doctors’ Exams Are Raising Health Care Costs
COMMITTED TO PHYSICIAN AUTONOMY
Dr. Westby G. Fisher
PPA Board Member
Dr. Fisher is a Practicing Physicians of America Board Member and the Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at a large health care system in the Chicago Metro area. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in three specialties in medicine: Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Cardiac Electrophysiology. Because he is nearly 60 years of age, he has watched the ABIM’s Board certification process go from an entirely voluntary credential to one that is time-limited requiring recurrent payments to the ABIM throughout one’s lifetime.
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ABIM’s Ongoing Financial Deterioration
