Maintenance of Certification

MOC is an expensive, time-consuming process that many physicians believe offers no value to them or their patients.

TMA opposes mandatory maintenance of certification (MOC) requirements for licensing, health plan contracting, and hospital credentialing because:

• MOC is too expensive. Testing fees and materials, time away from practice, travel, and lost revenue, may add up to more $10,000 for an individual physician.
• MOC requires physicians to take too much time away from our patients and our families.
• MOC lacks sufficient research to document the benefits to patient care — In fact, many physicians say the information studied and tested has little applicability to their day-to-day practice.
  
  

Read the TMA Maintenance of Certification White Paper.

What You Need to Know About the Texas MOC Law

 

TMA's new white paper answers many questions on a tough new law that protects physicians from being forced to undergo maintenance of certification (MOC).

MOC Questions Answered Here  

Maintenance of Certification Bill Signed into Law

 

Hear TMA Advocacy Vice President Darren Whitehurst detail the maintenance of certification bill (MOC) that Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law.

How Texas Found Relief  

ABIM Reverses Course on MOC Quality Improvement Requirements

The American Board of Internal Medicine suspended several recent revisions to its maintenance-of-certification quality improvement requirements.

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