The American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) Establishes an Annual Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Fee for those Diplomates Certified by the ABPM in Addiction Medicine
Chicago, IL, August 24, 2018
The American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) announced today that it has established an annual Maintenance of Certification (MOC) fee of $175 for all diplomates certified by the ABPM in the Subspecialty of Addiction Medicine on or after January 1, 2018. Implementation of this fee structure, which includes MOC Part 3 examination fees, eliminates the burden of diplomates being required to make a single, large payment when taking the MOC Part 3 examination.
In announcing this new policy, the ABPM’s Board Chair M. ‘Tonette’ Krousel-Wood, MD, MSPH, said “The ABPM values the opinions of its diplomates. By implementing an incremental and more modest annual fee, the ABPM is proactively responding to the results of its recent MOC Survey where diplomates expressed a strong preference for an annual fee as opposed to a single lump-sum payment when registering for the MOC examination. Furthermore, the ABPM sees this new policy as a first-step in a deliberative process that will, when combined with other meaningful change, function to increase diplomate satisfaction with the ABPM’s MOC program.”
By registering for MOC and paying the annual fee, diplomates certified by the ABPM in Addiction Medicine will have log-in access to the ABPM’s MOC portal which will provide them with links to ABPM-approved MOC Part 2 and Part 4 activities, and the ability to track their progress in meeting MOC requirements, and to utilize the ABPM Customer Support Center.
This annual MOC fee is effective immediately and payment of the first installment covering calendar year 2018 can be made by clicking on the following link:
https://certification.abpm-us.org/moc/register/addiction-medicine
Diplomates certified by the ABPM in the Subspecialty of Addiction Medicine will have until December 31 of each year to pay the required annual MOC fee. Diplomates not meeting the payment deadline will be subject to a late fee of $150 and loss of access to the diplomate MOC portal.
