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|Articles|May 8, 2014
[Chart] MOC: Where does the money go?
How does the American Board of Internal Medicine spend the revenue it obtains from physicians' maintenance of certification fees? This chart breaks it down.
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Physicians attending the American College of Physicians 2014 conference in Orlando, Florida, had a chance to question the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) about the controversial issue of maintenance of certification (MOC). A popular question involved where ABIM spent the revenue it obtains from physicians' MOC fees. ABIM supplied the breakdown below.
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