What Entity or Particular person Serves As ABIM’s “Restricted” Contributors?

 In late 2018 by 2020, The American Board of Inside Medication (ABIM) was concerned in a class motion antitrust lawsuit for claims of unlawful creation and upkeep of their monopoly
energy available in the market for upkeep of certification (MOC). Regardless that there was an outpouring of doctor help for the lawsuit from working physicians, the case didn’t survive huge authorized efforts to kill the case on technical grounds earlier than it went to trial.

Now, physicians are left with little alternative however to cough up more cash to pay the exorbitant salaries of the non-clinical tutorial elite who run the group or danger shedding their jobs.  It’s the tie that binds ABIM’s their proprietary MOC persevering with schooling product to physicians’ preliminary subspecialty board certification that enables ABIM to boost their prices with none oversight as a result of physicians require their preliminary board certification credential to keep up their hospital privileges or place on insurance coverage firms’ rosters.

It’s significantly regarding that ABIM determined to boost their MOC charges 25% in 2022 when their very own property mushroomed 18% in 2021 alone to greater than $168 million:

ABIM has always billed itself as a “physician-led” non-profit 501(c)(3) group. From their About ABIM webpage:

“ABIM is a physician-led, non-profit, impartial analysis group pushed by docs who wish to obtain larger requirements for higher care in a quickly altering world.”

However are they actually? Who is absolutely pulling the strings at ABIM?

We’ve already seen that the previous CEO and President of ABIM, Christine Cassel, MD was serving as a board member of one of many largest Group Buy Organizations, Premier, Inc, and serving on the Board of Kaisier Hospital and Well being Techniques whereas additionally serving as President and CEO of the ABIM – battle that was by no means disclosed to physician-diplomates of the ABIM.

However now we see one other regarding potential battle that wants rationalization, particularly with the speed hike in charges doctor should endure. Who’re ABIM’s “RESTRICTED” contributor(s) discovered buried on their newest IRS Type 990?

Would possibly or not it’s George Soros (since ABIM contributed to his Institute for Medical Professionalism in 2003 and 2008)?

Or would possibly or not it’s different members of the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Training (ACGME), just like the American Medical Affiliation (AMA) or American Hospital Affiliation (AHA)? Who stands to revenue from the management of physicians this manner?

Physicians have a proper to know what the heck is happening at ABIM and why are charges have gone up 25% in 2022 at a time when ABIM is greater than flush with money. We additionally should know who their contributors are which are supporting his racket. 

Except, after all, the US is operating the doctor regulatory system just like the mob.

-Wes

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