tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 17

No Re-Certification Without Practice Improvement

While payers talk about rewarding physicians for outcomes, the American Board of Internal Medicine is taking a concrete step forward.Starting next January, for the first time doctors of internal medicine seeking to maintain their board certifications will be evaluated on practice performance as well as on medical knowledge, ABIM announced earlier this month. Beginning over a decade ago, ABIM made a re-certification process mandatory for physicians to continue to identify themselves as board-certified. Some other specialties, such as family medicine, have had re-certification requirements for much longer.Also effective in January, physicians who are in the midst of...

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