Good News! Thanks to your help, the Rhode Island House of Representatives passed H5191 unanimously Tuesday, June 29. MOC reform to cut red tape and protect Rhode Island patients’ access to doctors of their choice is getting closer than ever to passing. However, because the other side is working overtime to kill our momentum, we […]
Not long ago, board certification of physicians simply documented achievement of a certain level of specialty training, but recently it has become time-limited. There is a now a multi-million-dollar industry that imposes recurring onerous, expensive requirements on physicians. Constant recertification (Maintenance of Certification or MOC®) has become a cult, writes anesthesiologist Paul Martin Kempen, M.D., […]
Dear NC AAPS Members and Friends, Please take a quick moment to speak out and ask your legislators to oppose SB 380 and keep North Carolina from tying itself to a failing organization, the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. Get your message on the way with a few clicks at: https://p2a.co/znaCcC8 The Interstate Medical Licensure Compact “may seem like a […]
Dear AAPS Members and Friends in Texas, The Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee is considering an important bill today to help further reduce the counterproductive burden of MOC (Maintenance of Certification). SB 1502, introduced by Senator Dawn Buckingham, MD, would make the important change of requiring the Texas Medical Board to recognize a […]
Amid a pandemic it is more important than ever to protect physicians from counterproductive requirements that do not benefit patients. Please help speak out in favor of legislation under consideration in Rhode Island to cut through such red tape imposed by Maintenance of Certification (MOC) requirements. H5191 aims to implement two simple common-sense measures: 1) Prohibits […]
April 2021 update: AAPS reply brief filed with 7th Circuit: https://aapsonline.org/aaps-v-abms-4-29-2021.pdf March 2021 update: AAPS files brief with 7th Circuit: https://aapsonline.org/aaps-v-abms-3-9-2021.pdf ——————————————– October 2020 update: AAPS files appeal with 7th Circuit: http://aapsonline.org/aaps-v-abms-10-21-2020.pdf ——————————————– November 2019 update: A status hearing was held on November 4, 2019. The judge indicated the potential for a decision to be […]
August 21, 2019 The Honorable Nancy VanderMeerWisconsin State AssemblyPO Box 8953Madison, WI 53708-8952 Dear Representative VanderMeer, Thank you for your service to the citizens of District 70 and the State of Wisconsin. We are writing today to suggest an amendment to your bill (AB 70) seeking to extend Wisconsin’s participation in the Interstate Medical Licensure […]
Dear Colleagues: Your voice is needed STAT to support two bills under consideration in the Rhode Island legislature to address improper Maintenance of Certification (MOC) mandates. Educating legislators about the need for S 301 and H 5247 is urgently needed. If adopted, these bills will help address MOC abuse and promote competition to American Board […]
Dear TxAAPS Members and Friends: Some hospitals are improperly circumventing the good bill enacted by the Texas Legislature in 2017 (SB 1148) intended to restrict hospitals and insurers from imposing counterproductive MOC requirements on physicians. This session Sen. Dawn Buckingham has introduced SB 1882 to help ensure hospitals follow the law. The bill was just […]
January 15, 2019 The following comments by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) are in response to the call for public input on the draft report from the Continuing Board Certification: Vision for the Future Commission released on December 11, 2018. If one were developing a product to sell in the open market, […]