This week’s health policy news roundup curated by Jane Orient, M.D. The Texas Medical Association says any connection between Maintenance of Certification® (MOC®) and the “doc fix” (HR2) was created by “internet trolls.” This is one of the “top 10 myths about HR 2.” http://static.ow.ly/docs/Top%2010%20Myths%20About%20HR%202_3b8S.pdf But there’s a smoking gun: In a letter to Energy […]
Keep the pressure on your Senators. Call them TODAY and tell them to vote NO on H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). Click here for contact information for your Senators. Make no mistake: H.R. 2 bolsters ObamaCare’s control over patients and their physicians and empowers groups profiting from MOC. Your efforts are […]
THIRTEEN POINTS to consider during preparations to challenge MOC as a monopoly testing industry in organized state and specialty medical societies. 1. Collect at least a half dozen on-site friends, colleagues, and society members for the local battle. Visit other geographic delegations and caucuses. Speakers and district or caucus leaders who can deliver support (speaking […]
Massachusetts became the 14th state medical society in the USA to OPPOSE MOC by a House of Delegates vote ending around 3 pm on Saturday December 6, 2014 near the end of the Mass Medical Society I-14 interim meeting. The general will of the House, late on a Saturday afternoon, was heard loudly and clearly. […]
Physicians Pass Resolutions Opposing MOC & MOL In recent weeks both the Washington State Medical Association and the Medical Association of Georgia have passed resolutions in opposition to MOC and MOL. Add your state medical society to the growing list who oppose the Federation of State Medical Board’s (FSMB) new maintenance of licensure requirements (MOL) […]
Can MOC be Stopped? Yes! Volume 69, no. 5 May 2013 American physicians have long been acting like the faithful horse Boxer on George Orwell’s Animal Farm, working harder and harder for less and less to sustain a dysfunctional system. They are also treated like scapegoats and cash cows for government, third-party payers, and a […]
By: Alieta Eck MD, On April 26, 2013, The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) was delivered a shot across the bow. Physicians who had been laboring under increasing burdens and requirements have finally said “enough is enough.” The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) served this Board with a lawsuit in the federal […]
On the weekend of April 13, 2013, the Medical Society State of New York House of Delegates adopted resolutions in opposition to MOC and MOL. RESOLUTION IN OPPOSITION TO MANDATORY MAINTENANCE OF CERTIFICATION Resolutions 165 and 168, Opposition to Mandatory Maintenance of Certification, were combined. A substitute resolution was offered by the Reference Committee and […]
Dear New York AAPS members and friends: The time is NOW to speak out against new licensure requirements in New York State before they are implemented. Please read the below letter from Lawrence Huntoon, MD, PhD for more information including links to sample MSSNY resolutions. Ask your county medical societies to support these resolutions and […]
Medical relicensure is intended to protect the public by assuring ethical behavior and a basic level of competence. But a new cottage industry would like to make it a cash cow, writes Dr. Paul Kempen, an anesthesiologist, in the winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. The effort has been thwarted, at […]