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Senate Finance Committee Recommends Ways That Medicare Can Enhance Current Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI)
Date:1/25/2008

-certifying boards programs could qualify as these registries.

"Including Maintenance of Certification as part of physician quality reporting in Medicare would effectively align professional, payer and public sector measures - providing physicians who chose to pursue this pathway with a more efficient approach to measuring and improving their performance," added Cassel.

At the individual physician's request, health plans and hospitals have already begun to use ABIM's Maintenance of Certification programs as markers of physician quality and include such programs in their reward/recognition efforts.

The American Board of Internal Medicine requires physicians that were Board Certified after 1990 to maintain their certification every 10 years. The Maintenance of Certification program is based on guidelines established by the American Board of Medical Specialties and includes four components - verification of credentials, a knowledge exam in a physician's specialty area that assess diagnostic acumen and clinical judgment, knowledge modules that pose a series of questions for physicians to demonstrate they are keeping up with the latest developments in the field and a self evaluation of practice performance through data collection, reporting and assessment.

About ABIM

The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that grants board certification - a marker of physician quality in the United States and internationally -- to internists and subspecialists. Certification is a rigorous, comprehensive program for evaluating physician knowledge, skills and attitudes to assure both patients and payers that a physician has achieved competence for practice in a given field. Individual physician certification results may be found at http://www.abim.org.


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